Podcasts

Vacuum Heat Treat Minute October 2014: Preventive Maintenance – Part 2

October’s installment is a continuation of August’s podcast, which featured tips on vacuum-furnace preventive maintenance. Listen to leaders in the thermal-processing industry share their experience about keeping your vacuum furnace in top condition.

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Vacuum Heat Treat Minute August 2014: Preventive Maintenance – Part 1

August’s installment features tips on vacuum-furnace preventive maintenance. Listen to leaders in the thermal-processing industry share their experience about keeping your vacuum furnace in top condition.

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Vacuum Heat Treat Minute June 2014: Graphite Materials for Hot-Zone Components – Part 2

This follow-up to part 1 in April continues to explore why graphite has grown to be the material of choice for vacuum-furnace heating elements and insulation over the last 20-25 years. Choosing graphite materials for certain hot-zone components is so important two podcasts on the subject are needed.

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Vacuum Heat Treat Minute April 2014: Graphite Materials for Hot-Zone Components – Part 1

The next two installments in this series of podcasts go deep into the core of vacuum furnaces to focus on the importance of choosing graphite materials for certain hot-zone components. In the April and June podcasts, we explore why graphite has grown to be the material of choice for vacuum-furnace heating elements and insulation over the last 20-25 years.

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Vacuum Heat Treat Minute February 2014: The Helium Shortage

This first installment of 2014 deals with the nationwide helium shortage. Accompanying Bill Jones and Jim Nagy of Solar Manufacturing is Bob Hill of Âé¶¹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·. He will suggest ways that commercial heat treaters involved in high-pressure gas quenching can work around the helium shortage.

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Vacuum Heat Treat Minute December 2013: Temperature Uniformity Surveys – Part 2

Bill Jones and Jim Nagy conclude their discussion about how to properly perform a vacuum-furnace uniformity survey

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Vacuum Heat Treat Minute October 2013: Temperature Uniformity Surveys – Part 1

Bill Jones and Jim Nagy start the first of two discussions about how to properly perform a vacuum-furnace uniformity survey.

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Vacuum Heat Treat Minute April 2013: Responding Effectively To Utility Loss – Power/Gas/Water

Our recently published online exclusive outlines critical preventive-maintenance essentials for vacuum heat treaters. As important as these procedures are, no amount of preventive maintenance can overcome a sudden utility loss, which is beyond control of the furnace operator. Get tips on quick and appropriate action you can take to avoid significant disruption, damage and expense when a loss of power, gas or water occurs.

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