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Instructions For Use of Your
PT50A Industrial, PT50B & PT50C Sharp
Edge Sharpness Tester
manufactured by
Pictured PT50B
Thank you for purchasing a PT50 Series Sharp . From now on you will know with precision how sharp
the edges on your best knives, scissors, woodworking tools and industrial cutting edges really are.
Always use caution when handling sharp edges and protective gloves are always a safe bet!
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Summary of Contents for Edgeonup PT50A Industrial
- Page 1 Instructions For Use of Your PT50A Industrial, PT50B & PT50C Sharp Edge Sharpness Tester manufactured by Pictured PT50B Thank you for purchasing a PT50 Series Sharp . From now on you will know with precision how sharp the edges on your best knives, scissors, woodworking tools and industrial cutting edges really are.
- Page 2 The PT50A Industrial edge tester is the only edge tester in the PT50 Series that is warrantied by Edge On Up for medical, light industrial and commercial use. The PT50A includes a steel measurement platform, our fastest processer, 1 gram of resolution and a heavy duty strain gauge sensor.
- Page 3 Although you will typically try to begin the measurement process with the display sitting at zero, in fact, zeroing is not always required nor necessary. The measurement system employed by Sharp is a "greater than" methodology meaning that the instrument is always looking for the maximum amount of pressure applied to the test media during any one measurement event.
- Page 4 TEST MEDIA CLIP FIXTURE - Your basic instrument package for the PT50 C and PT50A Industrial unit (PT50A also includes aluminum Test Media Fixture) includes 25 disposable test clips and a slotted base to hold the test clips in place. Disposable clips and base may also be purchased separately and used with the PT50B in place of the aluminum Test Media Fixture.
- Page 5 Reloading the test fixture will take less than ten seconds once you have mastered it. The goal here is to simply pull the test media across the gap in the fixture with no slack (slight tension) in the test media. Do not over tension the test media.
- Page 6 bottom of the fulcrum slot but that is OK. Just make certain that the knife edge remains in the slot and that the sides of the knife blade are held in a vertical position during the measurement process. If the majority of the edges you measure are thick then you may want to widen the slot in the fulcrum using an ordinary hand saw blade (i.e.
- Page 7 Email us at edgeonup.com with questions - we respond!