Accredited Lab for Specific Gravity, Kinematic Viscosity, Flash Point, Fire Point

[Bill Ryan - 2007]

Accredited lab - HELP!!

Is anyone aware of, or can someone tell me where to go (take it easy) to look for, an accredited lab which can perform SPECIFIC GRAVITY, KINEMATIC VISCOSITY (from 100 deg. C to -40 deg. C), FLASH POINT, and FIRE POINT testing on lubricating oil?????

We assemble two sintered metal bearings into a line of our housings and this, customer specific, material specification needs to be adhered to. The lab our supplier had been using all along has had a falling out with our customer and refuses to be part of our team anymore. They have also told me that they are the "only accredited lab in the U.S. that can perform the testing". I have submitted an "Interim" PPAP to my customer (with another one going out today) because of this and I'm not sure they know what to do either.

There are some ASTM specifications called out but ASTM hasn't gotten back to me either.

Any and all help would be appreciated.

Thank you in advance,
Bill

 

[D.Scott]

Bill - try a search for the ASTM # on the A2LA search at:

https://www.a2la2.net/dirsearch/search7.cfm

They also accept "word match" searches in Lab Scopes.

Dave

 

[Douglas E. Purdy]

Greg Gogates Forum

Bill,

If Dave's link is not helpful, Greg Gogates moderates a forum for ISO/IEC 17025 and they respond fairly quick. Sorry I do not have that link available here, but I could forward when I go to my home office.

Here try this https://www.fasor.com/iso25/listserv.html

 

[Bill Ryan - 2007]

Thank you Dave and Douglas!!!!

Dave - your link was exactly what I needed to find and you probably saved me a few days of surfin'.

Douglas - I checked your link and as I read the "intro" it just seemed that someone might send me to the same place Dave did (or an actual lab might have offered their services). I can see where this link might come in handy should we decide to expand our lab abilities and I'm sure I'll be using it in the future.

Once again, thank you both.

Bill