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Morehouse PCM2K-2 Product Manual

Portable calibrating machine

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ISO/IEC 17025 / ANSI/NCSLI Z540.3 Accredited
Portable Calibrating Machine
Morehouse Instrument Company, Inc.
1742 Sixth Ave., York, PA 17403-2675 USA
Product Guide
P: (717) 843-0081
F: (717) 846-4193
PG-5401
Rev. 4/2021
info@mhforce.com
www.mhforce.com

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  • Page 1 PG-5401 Rev. 4/2021 ISO/IEC 17025 / ANSI/NCSLI Z540.3 Accredited Product Guide Portable Calibrating Machine info@mhforce.com Morehouse Instrument Company, Inc. P: (717) 843-0081 1742 Sixth Ave., York, PA 17403-2675 USA www.mhforce.com F: (717) 846-4193...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Weight Hanging Kit for L-Bracket..............14 Morehouse Instrument Company, Inc.
  • Page 3: Description

    (PG-5401) Description The Morehouse Portable Calibrating Machine (PCM) was designed and manufactured to address issues associ- ated with calibrating small force measurement instruments. The machine is highly versatile in accommodating a large variety of configurations to which force measurement instruments are made at lower capacities (under 2,000 lbf).
  • Page 4: Standard Parts

    Coupling Nut Standard Load Cell Mounting Adapter Mechanical Jack Ball Seat Adapter Compression Bearing Pad Figure 1: Components of Portable Calibrating Machine Morehouse Instrument Company, Inc. Phone: (717) 843-0081 Page 4 1742 Sixth Ave., York, PA 17403-2675 USA www.mhforce.com Rev. 4/2021...
  • Page 5: Standard Reference Load Cell

    Shear Web load cell is used as the reference standard in a Portable Calibrating Machine. The standard mounting adapter is designed to mount a Morehouse Shear Web load cell as the reference standard into the Portable Calibrating Machine. Figure 2: Ultra-Precision...
  • Page 6: Portable Calibrating Machine Models

    The Portable Calibrating Machine is offered in various models with different sizes to address different users cal- ibration requirements. Figure 5 and Table 1 contain specifications for the standard models. Contact Morehouse if you need additional features or different sizes for the Portable Calibrating Machine.
  • Page 7: Compression Adapters

    To use this feature, a set of Morehouse alignment plug adapters must be mounted to the bottom part of the instrument. The alignment plug adapter fits into the alignment hole to ensure that the reference standard load cell and unit under test experience the same loading line.
  • Page 8: Tension Adapter Kit

    Tension Adapter Kit Tension force calibration often requires proper adapters to install the force instrument into the calibrating ma- chine. Morehouse offers a tension adapter kit for the Portable Calibrating Machine to help with tension force calibration setups. The kit includes threaded adapters, which are used to mount the unit under test between the reference stan- dard and the stage beam of Portable Calibrating Machine.
  • Page 9 Morehouse per the users request. This Tension Adapter Kit is designed to be compatible with Morehouse shear web load cells. If another type of load cell is used as the reference standard in a Portable Calibrating Machine, consult Morehouse before placing an order for this kit.
  • Page 10: Hand-Held Force Gauge L-Bracket Adapters

    The Portable Calibrating Machine addresses this issue by providing a highly precise force control and elimi- nating sudden increments in applied force. Morehouse offers a set of L-Bracket adapters to calibrate hand-held force gauges in a Portable Cali- brating Machine. The L-Brackets consist of a number of back-plates, bottom-plates, and treaded adapters to mount various models of hand-held force gauges.
  • Page 11 Portable Calibrating Machine. It also provides information to assist with selecting the appropriate parts of the adapter kit for calibrating each force gauge model. If you need to calibrate hand-held force gauges that are not shown in Table 3, contact Morehouse to add the necessary pieces to your kit. Swiveling Coupling Nut...
  • Page 12 0.5000” (12.7MM) #10-32 Chatillon DFGRS LIGHT DUTY 0.5000” (12.7MM) #10-32 Table 3: Hand-held Force Gauges that can be Calibrated with a L-Bracket Morehouse Instrument Company, Inc. Phone: (717) 843-0081 Page 12 1742 Sixth Ave., York, PA 17403-2675 USA www.mhforce.com Rev. 4/2021...
  • Page 13 M4 OR M6 Shimpo 0.7500” (19.1MM) Shimpo FGV-500/1000HXY 0.9252” (23.5MM) Table 3: Hand-held Force Gauges that can be Calibrated with a L-Bracket Morehouse Instrument Company, Inc. Phone: (717) 843-0081 Page 13 1742 Sixth Ave., York, PA 17403-2675 USA www.mhforce.com Rev. 4/2021...
  • Page 14: Weight Hanging Kit For L-Bracket

    Weight Hanging Kit for L-Bracket Morehouse has an optional add-on for the L-Bracket kit that allows the user to apply very small forces to hand- held force gauges with small hand-weights. As depicted in Figure 9, the weight hanging apparatus can be add- ed to the L-Bracket and force gauge assembly to apply the hand-weight forces.

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