1) DSHD-2806 Asphalt Softening Point Tester is designed and  developed as per the NatioStandard of People’s Republic of China GB/T 4507-1999 “Test Methods for Softening Point of Asphalt by the Ring and Ball Method” and T0606 “Asphalt  Softening Point Test (Ring and Ball Method)” in the Industry Standard of People’s Republic of China JTJ052 Specification  and Test Methods of Bitumen and Bituminous Mixture for Highway Engineering.

2) DSHD-2806 Asphalt Softening Point Tester is applied to determine the softening point of petroleum asphalt, coal pitch, liquid petroleum asphalt, and various other asphalts.

1.Shouldered ring: it is also called as sample mold, or sample ring.

It is 6.4 mm in height. The diameter of upper opening is 19.8 mm

and the diameter of lower opening is 15.9 mm.
2.Steel ball: It is 9.5 mm in diameter. Its weight is 3.50±0.05 g
3.Steel ball centering ring: The inside diameter of the ring is 23.0 mm.

The center of the ring is 9.55 mm in diameter
4.Test mode: It can make parallel tests for two groups of sample at the

same time
5.Bottom plate:

It is 25.4 mm distance from the bottom of the shouldered ring
6.Bath: 1000 ml beaker
7.Thermometer: Glass mercury thermometer. The full scale is 30°C~180°C

and each scale division is 0.5 °C (it is in accord with GB/T514)
8.Instrument weight: 1.5 kg