Metallography Application Notes

Digital Microscopy
Hardness Testing
Image Management
Sample Preparation

Met Tips
Met Tips are a series of publications dealing with various aspects of metallographic specimen preparation techniques.

Description	Met Tip #	Form #
Calib of Video Meas Sys & Micro Ret...	Met Tip #1	200-976-001
Eliminate Bleed-out of Etchants...	Met Tip #2	200-976-002
In-Situ Metallography	Met Tip #3	200-976-003
What Type of Mounting Media to Use	Met Tip #4	200-976-004
Revealing Delta Ferrite...	Met Tip #5	200-976-005
Calculating Specific Gravity...	Met Tip #6	200-976-006
Met Prep of PC Boards	Met Tip #7	200-976-007
Stereo Pairs from Low Power Microscopes	Met Tip #8	200-976-008
Hardness Testing	Met Tip #9	200-976-009
Metallography: A Tool for Quality Control	Met Tip #10	200-976-010
The Art of Grinding	Met Tip #11	200-976-011
Sectioning	Met Tip #12	200-976-012
Polishing	Met Tip #13	200-976-013
Tricks of the Trade	Met Tip #14	200-976-014
Grit, Mesh, and Micron Size	Met Tip #15	200-976-015
Surface Roughness	Met Tip #16	200-976-016
Etching	Met Tip #18	200-976-018
Met Preparation of Ceramics...	Met Tip #19	200-976-019
Exact Measurements of Opaque Coatings	Met Tip #20	200-976-020
Sulfur Printing	Met Tip #21	200-976-021
Colloidal Silica	Met Tip #22	200-976-022
Reflected Light Microscopes	Met Tip #23	200-976-023
Automatic Specimen Preparation	Met Tip #24	200-976-024

More Free Metallographic Technical Information
LECO has a wide variety of technical information available. To order the following, go to the contact us page.

• Automatic Polisher Procedures by L. Dillinger, Ph.D. An overview of various polishing procedures.
  (Form No. 200-983)


• Metallographic Principles and Procedures by C. Johnson. A book detailing all aspects of sample preparation. (Form No. 200-860)

You can also order your free Metallographic Principles and Procedures CD by clicking here (Be sure to include your name, company name, company address, phone number, and CD-ROM Form No. 209-050-089), or download the pdf file now by clicking here.

(Note: The file size is 1MB and may take some time to download depending on your internet connection).