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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Solar Atmospheres. He will suggest ways that commercial heat treaters involved in high-pressure gas quenching can work around the helium shortage.
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
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.
Vacuum Heat Treat Minute August 2013: Tips for Operating a Vacuum Furnace Under Humid Conditions
Tips for Operating a Vacuum Furnace Under Humid Conditions.
Vacuum Heat Treat Minute June 2013: Cost-Reduction Considerations in Operation, Maintenance of Vacuum Furnaces
Cost-Reduction Considerations in Operation, Maintenance of Vacuum Furnaces.
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.
