High Temperature Furnace for High Speed Steel Heat Treating
February 1, 2017
Lucifer Furnaces has delivered a dual chamber high temperature furnace to Compacting Tooling Inc. (CTI), McKeesport, PA. Model HS8-181224 is a custom size designed to meet Compacting Tooling's load requirements.
Powered with 42 kW, this furnace, designed to heat treat high speed steel, reaches 2,450 °F in the upper chamber and 1,200 °F in the lower, tempering oven. A combined 6.5" of ceramic fiber modules with mineral wood backup insulation allows for faster heating/cooling cycles. Silicon carbide heating elements operate off-the-line through an SCR power supply with a current limiting circuit which auto adjusts the voltage to elements as their resistance increases, resulting in longer element life. Heat treating recipes can be stored in the Honeywell digital temperature controllers with a seven-day timer. High limit controllers were added for safety.
CTI, an ISO 9001-2008 certified shop, is a specialized tool and die company manufacturing high quality tooling for the powder compaction industry. The new Lucifer furnace will be used to heat treat CPM high speed steel (Crucible Particle Metallurgy). CTI does most of its heat treating in-house for faster turnaround time of customer orders. This furnace will supplement the other Lucifer Furnaces currently in use.
For more information contact:
Lucifer Furnaces, Inc.
2048 Bunnell Road
Warrington, PA 18976
800-378-0095
info@luciferfurnaces.com
www.luciferfurnaces.com
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