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Good day. My company has just set up a Calibration Lab and I am one of the people responsible for the calibration of the equipment, which consists mainly of calipers, micrometers, height gauges and other hand tools for a machine shop.
The humidity readings in the lab have hovered around 65 to 75% over the past few days so I haven't done any calibration. Our procedures state that the humidity must be a fixed rate between 35 and 55% RH, with a +- tolerance of 5% (taken from ISO 17025).
Although I know that the humidity is too high I would like to know the short term and long term effects of humidity on tooling, so I can explain to my manager why I can't do any calibration (and possibility get better climate control in the lab).
Any help would be much appreciated.
The humidity readings in the lab have hovered around 65 to 75% over the past few days so I haven't done any calibration. Our procedures state that the humidity must be a fixed rate between 35 and 55% RH, with a +- tolerance of 5% (taken from ISO 17025).
Although I know that the humidity is too high I would like to know the short term and long term effects of humidity on tooling, so I can explain to my manager why I can't do any calibration (and possibility get better climate control in the lab).
Any help would be much appreciated.