by Staff Writer | Nov 1, 2018 | News, CSI, Furnaces and Ovens
THE MYSTERY An aerospace customer had recently moved one of their composite ovens which they used for curing aircraft parts. When they hooked it back up again they ran into a couple of problems: First, the machine wasn’t warming up fast enough. Second, once it finally...
by Dade Ronan | Sep 4, 2018 | CSI, Furnaces and Ovens, Programming
THE MYSTERY One of ACES customers was wrestling with an older oven, which had been suffering for years from random flameouts due to a finicky burner. It was used to heat-treat aircraft parts, and had been tinkered with on and off over the past 10 years in an attempt...
by Dade Ronan | Aug 28, 2018 | News, CSI, Furnaces and Ovens, Programming
THE MYSTERY An aluminum extrusion company experienced a fire in one of their billet heaters, which damaged the machine and melted critical components inside the electrical control cabinet, along with a good part of the interconnecting wire. This was a high-demand...
by Staff Writer | May 5, 2017 | Furnaces and Ovens, CSI, News
THE MYSTERY One of ACES’ aerospace customers had an atmosphere oven which they used for heat treating parts. It was down for an overhaul, and they asked ACES to remove the eight burners and burner tubes and clean and inspect them. When the ACES Control Systems...
by Staff Writer | Mar 6, 2017 | News, Aircraft, CSI, Furnaces and Ovens
THE MYSTERY One of ACES’ customers called with a curious issue: They were an aerospace company using an older vacuum furnace to anneal stainless steel parts, making them shiny and silver — but now the parts were coming out green. A Control Systems Inspector (CSI) was...
by Staff Writer | Sep 7, 2016 | Featured Projects, Furnaces and Ovens, Measurement, News
New Machine Shop, Calibration Lab and Office in the Works Ribs of massive metal beams cast shadows over a slab of newly poured concrete behind ACES’ current shop. By the summer of 2017 this space will house a new machine shop for metal fabrication of large-scale items...