Vavious theories, such as those of Bowden-Tabor (theory of adhesive wear), Kerridge (theory of metal transfer), Feng (plastic roughening theory) having been presented, wear phenomena have been made clear to some extent. The details of wear phenomena, however, are still unknown on account of their complexity. The purpose of this study is to show the reason why those theories cannot well explain the experimental results, and also to find out the factor on dry wear. Special wear tester was made for this study and in this report, the outline of the wear tester and the results of preliminary test are described. Preliminary tests showed the satisfactory results, and it is pointed out that the working accuracies of wear tester and specimen have an effect on the reproducibility of experimental results.