tender for plate type compression set apparatus - as per is 3400 (part 10) 1977 for testingunder constant strain plates type with base plate and hand wheel arrangement consists of four steel plates withflat and parallel ground faces. the plates are moving in a fixture having a rigid base plates guided on a pair ofrods. the spacers are also guided on the same rods with springs in between to increase the space between theplates for inserting the specimen .