Experimental Analysis of Moisture Tester for Automotive Plastic Parts

Brand of moisture meter: Boshi      Model: bos-180a series      Test item: automotive plastic sheet

The water content of plastics is a key reason affecting the production process, commodity appearance and commodity characteristics of resin materials such as polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP). In the injection molding process, if the plastic raw materials with excessive water content are used for production and manufacturing, it will cause some production and processing problems and affect the product quality, such as cracking of the surface layer, reflection, wear resistance, reduction of material mechanical properties such as service performance and tensile strength, etc. Therefore, the control of water content is particularly important for the production of high-quality plastic products.

Testing water content is a necessary step in the production of plastic materials. Testing moisture content is basically divided into national standard method and rapid moisture tester method. Boshi plastic rapid moisture tester is a widely used instrument and equipment at present.(auto plastic parts)Test steps:

1. First, take out the moisture meter, place it and power it on, then break the test material into small pieces, pour out about 6 grams of plastic pieces and pour them into the stainless steel tray. In order to dry and dry the plastic thoroughly during the test, we spread the fine pieces of plastic parts into a scattered form so that the temperature can penetrate into the plastic parts. Use tweezers to lay small pieces of plastic parts evenly. In order to avoid the zoom and blackening of small pieces of plastic parts after baking, we set the temperature at 105 , press the "start" key to start the test for 1 minute and 49 seconds, and then the test ends, and the test data displays 0.3%;

2. In order to obtain more stable data results, wait for the moisture meter of plastic parts to cool down before the second test. When the temperature of the instrument itself drops below 40 , also take about 6 grams of small pieces of plastic parts into the stainless steel tray, and lay the small pieces of plastic parts evenly. This time, we set the temperature at 105 , press the "start" key to start the test, and the test ends after 1 minute and 38 seconds, The test data showed 0.29%;Test data:From the above tests, we found that the moisture of these plastic sheets was well controlled and the moisture distribution was relatively uniform, which promoted the plastic parts to be completely dry after the test, and the moisture data results were also very good.

matters needing attention:1. Small pieces of plastic sheets shall be small enough to ensure the complete drying of water in plastic parts, and shall be evenly spread on the tray as far as possible, rather than simply stacked together.2. Do not set the temperature too high to prevent the plastic parts from melting in case of high temperature. The moisture meter of plastic parts has its use environmental restrictions. Please use it under the environmental conditions specified in the product operation manual. Do not operate in harsh environments.

3. As the instrument is a precision instrument, do not knock the workbench or vibrate the instrument during heating, otherwise the measurement will be inaccurate.4. After the test, do not touch the tray for the Yi first time to avoid scalding.Editing: JQ