Vacuum Furnace Maintenance
Optimizing Gas Quenching
Gas type and pressure, blower motor power, and furnace design features are among the important factors to consider when choosing a vacuum furnace gas quenching system.
Basic Vacuum Practice by Varian
Basic vacuum practices, a primer and basic introduction for vacuum technicians
Hot Zone Contamination
This sixth article in our series on vacuum heat treating examines contamination of the normally high-purity vacuum environment and explains how to determine if the hot zone is at fault.
Pumping and the Vacuum Furnace
The second installment of our series on practical aspects of vacuum heat treating focuses on the critical subject of pumping, highlights the relationship between efficiency and vacuum pressure.