The Vertical Bottom Loading Vacuum Furnaces (VBL-EQ Series) are external quench, vacuum heat treating and brazing furnaces generally designed for high production commercial, aerospace, and captive heat treating shops. They are high temperature, high vacuum, batch-type furnaces with electric resistance heating elements. Designed for heat treating, hardening, brazing, stress relieving, normalizing, annealing, tempering, sintering, homogenizing, degassing, diffusion bonding, creep forming, low pressure carburizing.
Features and Benefits
Vertical Bottom Loading design with integrated heavy-duty support structure
The bottom head is designed for motorized operation in/out – up/down and offers easy, convenient unobstructed loading/unloading of workloads and fixtures. The drive mechanism uses remote control operation for operator safety.
Gas Cooling in various pressures with up to a 300 horse power gas recirculation motor
Fully automated and programmable industrial controls package
Designed for easy maintenance and minimal downtime -work platforms and access ladders are available to provide safe and easy access to critical components
Hot Zone
Solar Manufacturing produces both metallic shielded or graphite insulated hot zones, depending on your specific processing requirements.
AMS 2750 compliant
Insulation: multiple layers of 1/2” thick high purity rayon graphite felt
Hot Face: one layer of 0.070” thick CFC², or other materials upon request
Heating elements: rugged segmented, curved graphite bands or ML Molybdenum bands, supported with a Solar proprietary design to reduce metallization of insulation materials and increasing the ease of maintenance