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Adhesion Testers for Paints & Coatings
 | Discover Elcometer’s industry-leading adhesion testers designed for precise adhesion tests for paint, coatings, and substrates. Our advanced testers assess bond strength across metals, concrete, wood, composites, and inter-coat layers, ensuring coatings meet ASTM and ISO standards for durability and performance. Choose from our full range of portable, benchtop, and automated models — including pull-off testers and cross hatch testers. Each paint adhesion test kit includes everything you need for fast, reliable testing in both laboratory and field environments. Pull-Off Adhesion Testing (ASTM D4541, ISO 4624)Elcometer’s pull-off adhesion testers apply controlled hydraulic pressure to bonded dollies, measuring the exact tensile force required to break adhesion. This critical adhesion pull test reveals failure points across the dolly, adhesive, coating, and substrate layers — providing essential insights for optimizing surface preparation and coating applications. Cross Hatch Adhesion TestsFor fast quality control, cross cut testers score precise grid patterns to check inter-coat adhesion. Ideal for routine production checks, maintenance inspections, and process verification. Why Perform Adhesion Testing?- Verify coating integrity and bond strength to meet ASTM, ISO, and customer standards
- Improve corrosion resistance and long-term durability in harsh environments
- Reduce costly failures with accurate failure analysis and surface optimization
- Provide documented, traceable proof of paint adhesion test results for compliance and quality assurance
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Cross hatch adhesion testers are a fast, low cost, visual comparison method for paint and powder coatings up to a thickness of 250µm (10mils) in order to evaluate the coating adhesion. The coating is cut into small squares, thereby reducing lateral bonding, and the coating adhesion assessed against ISO, ASTM or Corporate Standards. For more information on Adhesion Testing, read our page on Adhesion Testing explained.
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The Elcometer 108 Hydraulic Adhesion Tester is an extremely versatile gauge which can be used for many adhesion requirements. Adhesion tests can be made on flat or curved (concave and convex) surfaces.
The Elcometer 108 adhesion tester is the ideal gauge for coatings on Tanks, Pipelines, etc.
- Hand-Powered and portable
- Ideal for site work
- Reusable stainless steel dollies
Elcometer Digital Adhesion Tester features:
- Maximum hold - displays the highest value reached
- Backlit display for dark areas
- Rubber protective casing
- Switchable Metric/Imperial units
For more information on Adhesion Testing, read our page on Adhesion Testing explained.
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Simple to use, quantitative range giving a definitive adhesion value, ideal for the laboratory or field on flat or curved substrate applications. Tensile Dollies (or stubs) are glued to the coating and, when the adhesive has cured, the force required to pull the coating off the surface is measured.
Elcometer pull off gauges are very accurate and reliable to measure the coating adhesion. For more information on Adhesion Testing, read our page on Adhesion Testing explained.
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The Elcometer AVU has been designed to provide users with the means to confirm the accuracy of their pull-off adhesion gauge.
Due to its robust design the Elcometer AVU is suitable for use on site or in the laboratory and allows users to verify or self-certify their pull-off adhesion gauges.
A range of dolly adaptors are available for testing the Elcometer 106 and Elcometer 506 adhesion gauges. Adaptors are also available for testing other manufacturer's gauges.
Attach the appropriate dolly adaptor to the AVU, connect your adhesion gauge, apply load and compare the adhesion tester value to the reading on the AVU Display.
Features include:
- Max hold and live reading display
- MPa / psi switchable units
- Backlit display
- Automatic switch off
The Elcometer AVU is supplied with either a test certificate or full calibration certificate, suitable for self-certification.
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Elcometer provides a full range of standard and thin substrate actuator skirts allow each gauge to be use with 10, 14.2, 20 or 50mm diameter reusable dollies, ideal for testing coatings on thick, thin, flat or convex substrates.
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