The important of heat treating properly:  Chrysler (FCA US LLC) is recalling certain model year 2015-2016 Ram 1500 trucks manufactured June 17, 2015, to September 28, 2015. The affected vehicles may have been built with rear axles that were incorrectly heat treated.

Scary... How appropriate for Halloween.. this is what can happen without a hearth plate.. does your furnace have a hearth plate to protect the floor bricks and support your work load?  www.luciferfurnaces.com

Stress relief - be proactive!  This month's Industrial Heating Issue covers why it's important to maintain your equipment.  Add to that keeping spare heating elements in stock to reduce down time. 

Profitability and Proactive Maintenance in Heat Treatment

Hats off to our great employees at Lucifer Furnaces who keep building top notch furnaces, ovens and replacement parts!
Happy Labor Day!
An interesting read about US Manufacturing: How the Industrial Sector celebrates Labor Day

The Impact of Heat Treating on Your Daily Life

Great video from the Metal Treating Institute!
3 minutes - worth your time.
This is what we build furnaces to do... make metals stronger!

This Lucifer Furnaces model 7GT-B24 features an inert door curtain and will be heat treating parts in a nitrogen atmosphere in New England.

Laboratory Testing Inc. (LTI; Hatfield, PA), a full-service materials testing lab in the Philadelphia area, has added a Red Devil Dual Chamber furnace from Lucifer Furnaces, Inc.(Warrington, PA) to their line of analytical equipment. LTI specializes in performing metals testing through destructive testing methods, including mechanical, metallurgical, chemical and corrosion testing, and nondestructive testing (NDT) methods.

Destructive testing manager Brandon McVaugh chose this furnace “because their furnaces have good uniformity and are capable of meeting AMS 2750 requirements for aerospace, because of the generous work zones to accommodate larger parts, and because of their flexibility in options for temperature controllers and recording devices.”  

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Foil Wrap - Tool Wrap - Stainless Steel Foil Wrap

Protect your parts while hardening in air atmosphere.  Wrap in foil to protect from decarburization - oxide buildup - pitting - scaling.  You don't need to have a Lucifer Furnace to buy foil from us.. just give us a call.  We stock 50' rolls for temperature to  2000°F (type 321)  or 2400°F (type 309) - 24" wide.

Lucifer Furnaces' Price Special

Lucifer Furnaces' Price Special ! $2050.00. Great box furnace for Tool & Die and General Machine Shops. Harden metal to 2000°F. Quick Delivery - But It Now!

Celebrating a Nation of Makers
Empowering students and adults to create, innovate, tinker, and make their ideas and solutions into reality is at the heart of the Maker Movement. Since the first-ever White House Maker Faire, the White House has continued to support opportunities for students to learn about STEM through making, expand the resources available for maker entrepreneurs, and foster the development of advanced manufacturing in the U.S.

Take a look at Lucifer's Red Devil Series of furnace for affordable heat treating. Save time, avoid minimum lot charges and control quality in-house.

ASM 2750E and Nadcap.. what does it all mean?  It's not about buying a Nadcap certified furnace or oven, or one that meets ASM 2750E standards; it's about following a procedures, keeping records, keeping your equipment calibrated, etc... in order to be certified that your Company is compliant.. which in turn tells your customers that you are reliable.    Ipsen has a great technical paper...click here to view:  Removing Fear from the phrase ...

A bit about steel, compliments of World Steel Association (worldsteel): 
"There are more than 3,500 different grades of steel"
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Industrial Heating Magazine thought this was important enough to reprint from several years ago.. one of their most read articles.  Thought you might want to see it too:

understanding-the-jominy-end-quench-test

It's National Small Business Week!
"Every year since 1963, the President of the United States has issued a proclamation announcing National Small Business Week, which recognizes the critical contributions of America’s entrepreneurs and small business owners.

More than half of Americans either own or work for a small business, and they create about two out of every three new jobs in the U.S. each year.

As part of National Small Business Week, the U.S. Small Business Administration takes the opportunity to highlight the impact of outstanding entrepreneurs, small business owners, and others from all 50 states and U.S. territories. Every day, they’re working to grow small businesses, create 21st century jobs, drive innovation, and increase America’s global competitiveness."
National Small Business Week

Kudos to America's Small Business!  Lucifer Furnaces is proud to be a small business, proud to be manufacturing heat treating furnaces & industrial ovens for over 60 years, proud to gainfully employ some great guys, and proud to meet the needs of small business customers across the USA!

A good read:  Tempering Revisited by The Heat Treat Doctor in Industrial Heating - April 2015

Lucifer Furnaces Delivers Heat Treat System to Vermont Custom Gage LLC.

Vermont Custom Gage is using a Lucifer Furnaces' Oven, a Lucifer Salt Pot Top Loading Furnace and a Lucifer Quench Tank in the production of their measuring (gage) equipment.

Understanding and Measuring Decarburization - great article in February's issue of Advance Materials & Processes

Same address.. new website!

Just launched.. www.luciferfurnaces.com  revised. Check out the new information about furnace parts & accessories.  Download better product info from the pdf link on each page.  Watch for ongoing photo updates and new content.  Most of all, it's geared towards helping you get the info you need

What Type of Furnace?

What Type of Furnace do you need?  Check out Lucifer Furnace's Model Selection Guide to get started.. or give us a call.. we'll walk you through the questions to help you select the type of furnace to meet you heat treating needs.  Ask for Robert.

Lucifer Dual Chamber Furnaces for hardening & tempering

Precision Solutions, Utah, brings their heat treating in-house with a Lucifer Red Devil Dual Chamber furnace.