What to Look for When Choosing a Metalworks Partner
Whether you’re engineering golf clubs capable of acing shots from distant fairways, creating components for cosmic space odysseys, or dreaming up the most extravagant fountain pens in the universe, you deserve a metal treatment partner that personifies precision, reliability, experience, and technical expertise. That’s why it’s important to carefully consider a variety of factors in […]
Five Reasons to Consolidate Machining and Heat Treating Under One Roof
Only through the tireless pursuit of efficiency, reliability, and trustworthiness can a brand position itself at the top of innovation and quality. Your customers expect nothing less, and it’s on the rugged frontier of your production operations that the intricate process of transforming raw bar stock into durable, long-lasting components takes place. Bar stock machining, […]
The Art of Bright Metal Finishing for High-Performance Alloys
Inconel 718 and precipitation-hardening (PH) alloys have proved their mettle across a wide range of industrial sectors, including aerospace, energy, defense, transportation, and medical device manufacturing. These alloys offer a unique blend of robust mechanical properties, high-temperature stability, and corrosion resistance, making them indispensable for applications where reliability and uncompromising performance are critical. The process […]
Understanding the Basics of Heat Treating
Heat treating is both dead simple and devilishly complicated. Heat a part way up, or cool it way down, and its properties change. The first humans to toss bits of tin into a fire figured that out. With the right temperatures and time, the changes in a part can be good—even magical. For a modern […]
Learning Lessons the Right Way: By Building
When Steve Driscol started Thermal-Vac’s first brazing facility in Orange, California, he did it on his own. Although he was an expert in his craft, he knew little about what was needed to build an industrial brazing shop from the ground up. To make it work, he rolled up his sleeves and figured it out. […]