Podcasts
Podcast topics provide helpful tips and new knowledge to vacuum furnace owners and users. You may listen to these podcasts through the links below.
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Spring 2019
Vacuum Technology, Part 2: Vacuum Furnace Leak Rate Testing
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019-04-SMPodcast.mp3
Summer 2018
Vacuum Technology, Part 1: The Relationship Between Vacuum Pumpdown, Leak Rate Testing, and Rate of Rise
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/2018-06-SMPodcast.mp3
Spring 2018
How to Avoid Eutectic Reactions and Diffusion Bonding in Vacuum Processing
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2018-03-SMPodcast.mp3
December 2017
SolarVac® Polaris: The Ingenuity Behind Advanced Vacuum Furnace Controls
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2017-12-SMPodcast.mp3
September 2017
Innovations in Hot Zone Designs for Vacuum Heat Treating Furnaces
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/2017-09-SMPodcast.mp3
June 2017
Vacuum Pump Service and Maintenance for Vacuum Heat Treating Furnaces
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017-06-SMPodcast.mp3
March 2017
Electric Power Company Rebate Programs (Part 2)
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2017-03-SMPodcast.mp3
December 2016
Electric Power Company Rebate Programs (Part 1)
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/2016-12-SMPodcast.mp3
October 2016
Hot Zone Designs: Past, Present and Future (Part 3)
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-10-SMPodcast.mp3
August 2016
Hot Zone Designs: Past, Present and Future (Part 2)
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016-08-SMPodcast.mp3
June 2016
Hot Zone Designs: Past, Present and Future (Part 1)
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2016-06-SMPodcast.mp3
April 2016
Active Brazing of Titanium in a Vacuum Furnace
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/podcast-2016-04.mp3
February 2016
Vacuum Furnace Brazing of Stainless Steels
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/podcast-2016-02.mp3
December 2015
The Advantages of Vacuum Furnace Brazing
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/podcast-2015-12.mp3
October 2015
Preventing Distortion and Cracking in a Vacuum Furnace
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/sm-vhtm-podcast-2015-10.mp3
August 2015
The Problem of Contaminated Ceramic Electrical Insulators in a Vacuum Furnace
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SM-Podcast-Ceramic-082415.mp3
June 2015
Measuring and Monitoring Trace Levels of Water Vapor, Oxygen and Other Gases in the Vacuum-Furnace Atmosphere Part 2
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SM-Podcast-RGA-2-061515.mp3
April 2015
Measuring and Monitoring Trace Levels of Dew Point and Oxygen in Quench Gases Part 1
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SM-Podcast-Dew-Point-1-050815.mp3
February 2015
Preventive Maintenance Part 4
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SM-Podcast-PM-Power-Supplies-012115.mp3
December 2014
Preventive Maintenance Part 3
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SM-VHTM-Podcast-December-120914_mixdown.mp3
October 2014
Preventive Maintenance Part 2
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SM-VHTM-Podcast-October-102314b.mp3
August 2014
Preventive Maintenance Part 1
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SM-VHTM-August-PM-080414.mp3
June 2014
Graphite Vs Moly: Insulation
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SM-June-Podcast-060214.mp3
April 2014
Graphite Vs Moly: Heating Elements
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2-Vacuum-Heat-Treat-Minute-April-2014.mp3
February 2014
The Current Helium Shortage
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/vhtm-february-2014.mp3
December 2013
The Challenges in Performing Temperature Uniformity Surveys – Part 2
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/vhtm-december-2013.mp3
October 2013
The Challenges in Performing Temperature Uniformity Surveys – Part 1
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/vhtm-october-2013.mp3
August 2013
Operating a Vacuum Furnace Under Humid Conditions
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/vhtm-august-2013.mp3
June 2013
Cost-Reduction in Operating and Maintaining Vacuum Furnaces
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/vhtm-june-2013.mp3
April 2013
Responding Effectively To Utility Loss: Power/Gas/Water
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Solar-April-podcast.mp3
February 2013
The Advantages of Processing Titanium in Vacuum Furnaces
https://solarmfg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Solar_Podcast.mp3