When purchasing material test equipment for tensile, fatigue or other test modes, managers of test labs may want to compare new and used test equipment due to budget constraints or other factors. The problem is that there’s currently no easy way to determine if a particular used test machine is a good value. The purpose of this article is to provide you as a decision maker with some tools to evaluate the condition, value, and total costs associated with new or used test equipment. The market for used equipment
There’s a healthy market for used test systems of all types, and a wide range of systems, in varying conditions, is available at a wide range of prices. Table 1 lists some used systems that were available at the time of this writing and represents the typical availability of such systems.

 

 

 

 

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