Heat TreatTV pulls the best heat treat videos from the web for your viewing, and today Heat Treat TV highlights the pressurizing effect of quenching.
The mystery of Prince Rupert’s Drop is a well-known phenomenon. Somehow, the glass will not break under significant pressure, but a breakage to compromise the structure of the tail of the drop leads to absolute combustion, similar to a chemical explosion.
In this video, you won’t only simply learn about what the drop is, but also why it works and where it comes from. The relationship between glass and metal is the effect that the quench process has on the structural integrity of the materials. Learn more about external surface tension and its role in heat treat in this Heat TreatRadio podcast about Rethinking Heat Treating, Part 1 with Joe Powell of Integrated Heat Treating Solutions.
Heat TreatTV pulls the best heat treat videos from the web for your viewing, and today Heat Treat TV highlights Solar Atmospheres.
As a commercial heat treater, Solar Atmospheres is dedicated to providing vacuum heat treating and brazing services of the highest possible quality and meeting the expectations of their customers. They seek to educate their customers and will design a heat treating process that fits their needs.
This video demonstrates what a commercial heat treater considers when processing parts, including explaining why a heat treater chooses some methods over others. Topics mentioned in the presentation are brazing, carburizing, and nitriding as well as post-heat treat processing, vacuum brazing, vacuum carburizing, and vacuum gas nitriding.
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Today’s story is an industry update coinciding with an excellent video resource describing conventional press and sintering with PM.Heat Treat TV seeks to provide helpful content on the latest trends in the industry and keep you current with what is happening between overlapping technologies. Read on to see how this great video relates to current trends.
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There has been a lot of talk in the industry about how sintering and powder metallurgy (PM) have been making headway in the world of heat treat. From how to use 3D printed green parts to understanding the step-by-step protocols of vacuum sintering, innovative heat treaters are envisioning new horizons at their fingertips, literally, by using the myriad of tools and skills at their disposal.
One of the most prominent figures, who is on the cutting edge of sintering, PM, and 3D printing in the North American market, is Harb Nayar, president and founder ofTAT Technologies LLC. Hespoke about some of the changes in these overlapping applications of 3D printing, sintering, PM, and additive manufacturing (AM). “Now, that ‘most probability low alloy steel,’ with even a lower amount of alloying, is going to be more conducive to faster quenching. In powder metallurgy – gas quenching is already used after sintering: they call it sinter hardening. In my opinion, heat treat will have to somehow modify its practices to deal with if the same forged product is really made from micro ingots as opposed to a macro ingot.”
This video highlights the questions of “what” and “how” of conventional press-and-sinter powder metallurgy. The creators of this excellent presentation are the Metal Powder Industries Federation’s Industry Development Board and John Engquist,FAPMI (past president of the Center for Powder Metallurgy Technology). Giving the very basics, they share that PM is just metal powder, molded by high pressure in a closed die, and that molded 3D green compacts are then sintered to produce parts in the various industries which service the automotive, recreation, agricultural, hydraulics, and other markets. Watch the video to see how this process breaks down, and what factors to consider (like size) when planning your PM use.
Additionally, this video is now available as the introduction video to Heat Treat Today’sSintering & Powder Metallurgy page where even more new and technological articles and videos are available.
Neil Hardy, Metallurgical Specialist and Creator of MetallurgyData (photo source: Neil Hardy)
In this Heat TreatLearningspecial, metallurgical technician and specialist Neil Hardy at MetallurgyDatashares about the background of developing his educational video endeavors for people in the heat treat industry. This information was taken from an interview with Heat TreatTodayand has been curated for educational purposes. This video is a part of Heat TreatTV.
Heat TreatLearning is a series of curated pieces for Heat TreatToday's audience, intended to aid end-users in their continual professional development. If you have a piece that you believe might be helpful on this platform, email any of our editors with your information and we will be in touch. Our contact info is Bethany Funk - bethany@heattreattoday.com, Karen Ganzter - karen@heattreattoday.com, or editors at editor@heattreattoday.com.
Back to the Basics: Heat Treatment Types, Processes and Structures
This "back to the basics" video demonstrates the different outcomes of heat treatment types, processes, and structures. In it, the video offers clear parameters for how and why different heat treating methods matter for particular metals and for intended outcomes. It is provided by MetallurgyData, a global informational training platform based on providing metallurgical principles to aid understanding for application.
MetallurgyData on YouTube
MetallurgicalData produces educational content, as well as topics of interest. "I am currently producing a video that follows the process of me replicating my late father’s wedding ring. He died at the age that I am now so this project has quite a lot of emotion associated with it for me," the creator of the platform, Neil Hardy, said, "This will be video-graphic ad show the process of making the ring while the other will be based around the science of each stage of the process including, melting, casting and forging."
About MetallurgyData and Neil Hardy
In 2005, Neil Hardy, a Metallurgical Specialist, gained his bachelor’s degree in material engineering while working in lab and testing settings. Continuing to work at an international steel company before finally arriving in 2010 at a UK forge, Neil's experience has been continuously focused on the cutting edge.
Recently in his career, Neil began something less bent on new technology but still cutting edge. A self-funded project, MetallurgyData, started about five years ago. "It evolved," Neil said, "from two ideas; the first was to produce an online property prediction calculator and the second was around providing online training courses."
While Neil did not pursue the property production calculator idea, the online training courses were a hit. They have evolved into the videos that are currently available on YouTube. "I think there is a gap in the market for producing online training courses in metallurgy and I initially thought to pursue this with a 'fundamentals in metallurgy' course."
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Neil is looking to expand his YouTube platform to provide additional content, and is eager to develop more videos for companies in order to facilitate more informational content for his growing audience.
For more information, email Neil Hardy at metallurgydata@gmail.com, message him via MetallurgyData on LinkedIn, or leave comments on his YouTube Videos.
ECM-USA’s goal to bring sales and service support closer to their North American customers hasn’t changed in over 20 years. A subsidiary of ECM Technologies in Grenoble, France, they are a worldwide manufacturer of low-pressure vacuum carburizing furnaces and other products.
This video takes us through a brief history of their company, their culture, and what services they offer their customers. Take a brief break to learn more about the products and services they provide to their North American customers.
International Thermal Systems’ goal is to help their customers make better products by providing water-based cleaning and heat treating solutions to be used in their processes for manufacturing and fabrication. They strive to be heavily involved with their customers throughout the process, providing custom design as well as building services.
This video demonstrates how its process, customer-centered goals, and continued support over the entire life of the products provided by their craftsmen, work together to give their customers exactly the solution they are looking for.
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Heat TreatTVpulls the best heat treat videos from the web for your viewing, and today HTTV highlights Wirco Inc.
For over 50 years, family-owned Wirco Inc. has served numerous industries around the world by supplying high quality American made heat-treated parts. As the company has aged, it has adapted to the changing times and demands of the 21st century.
This video demonstrates how its updated technology, dedication to lab-tested American-sourced products, use of 3D printing technology, and recent expansion has turned it into a state-of-the-art one-stop shop for its customers.
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FNA 2018 is the largest heat treat event in the world in 2018. The event, sponsored by AFC-Holcroft, Surface Combustion, and Gasbarre Furnaces will host over 1,700 attendees from 8 countries in Indianapolis, Indiana, from Oct. 8-10.
Tom Morrison and the Metal Treating Institute shared this video with Heat TreatTV to demonstrate why commercial and captive heat treaters alike need to get their whole team to Furnaces North America 2018.
The cost of poor quality — with an eye toward eliminating it — was the topic of discussion at a recent heat treat industry conference (Furnaces North America). Todd Wenzel, President of Bluestreak|Throughput Consulting, made the presentation on October 4th in Nashville. By clicking on the image below, you’ll be taken to a post-event re-recording of the presentation.
Drive Aluminum is a four-segment video series published by the Aluminum Association (www.aluminum.org). Featuring former NASA astronaut, Dan Tani, these videos are meant to promote the use of aluminum among automakers and are full of interesting facts about the fuel efficiency, strength, carbon footprint/life cycle assessment, and safety of aluminum. This segment highlights Safety.
