Tips Newsletter

Midwest Tungsten Service publishes a newsletter for our customers on a quarterly basis. As a service to our internet visitors, selected Tips from the list below can be viewed in .pdf format. If you don't have the Adobe Acrobat Plug-In needed to view .pdf files, you can get it by clicking on the following icon:

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Tungsten and Costs
Filament Styles
Tungsten Filament Uses
Aluminum Evaporants / Copper
Release Agent Coatings - NEW
Standoff Posts
Standoff Posts, Case Histories
Who's Doing What?
Vacuum Metallizing (12 pages)
Second Surface
R.F.I. Coating / Cryopumping
VM Thickness - Distillation
How Thick is the Film?
SiO Film Thickness
Direct Fire vs. Preheat
Crystal Film Thickness Monitors
Glow Discharge
Corona Discharge
Plasma Polymerized Coatings
Basic Vacuum Theory
How Far to Pump Down
Fluctuating Gauges
Maximizing Metallizer Throughput
Mechanical Vacuum Pump Fluids
Diffusion Pumps
Differences in Diffusion Pump Fluid
Leaks and Gas Loads
Water Vapor and Vacuum Metallizing
Good Housekeeping Improves Coatings
Maintaining Your Metallizer
Troubleshooting
Simple Tests
VM Electrical Problems
Contamination
Static Electricity / Pocket Pyrometer
Let's Discuss Aluminum Evaporants
Gold and Pearls
Evaporating Gold Colored Alloys
Dip Dyes / Introducing New Ideas
Coloring Topcoats
Nitriding
Silver, Nickel, Chrome
Color Matching and Metamerism - NEW
Basecoats for Vacuum Metallizing
Automating Finishing Operations
Problems in Spraying / Air Make Up for Lacquers
The Spray Booth
Solvent Chart
Fire
Electron Beam Evaporation
Intermetallics
Glossary

Troubleshooting the Batch Vacuum Metallized Part

Book: Tungsten - The Story of an Indispensable Metal

And for our Spanish-speaking friends: Sugerencias

• Teoría básica de vacíos
• ¿Cuan gruesa es la capa?
• Mantener su metalizadora
• El vapor de agua y la metalización en vacío alto
• Características de las flúidas de bombas de vacío mecánicas
• Quehaceres domésticos