Disaster strikes, you tried to coat a rocket motor with a specialized coating at brand X and the coating in the throat area of the thruster was not consistent, the thruster melted, resulting in untold thousands of dollars wasted and months of schedule delays. Thermal-Vac Advantage to the rescue.

We have taken the time to develop silicide coatings in such a manner that provides for absolute uniform coating thickness even in the hard to quantify throat area of a nozzle. Our nozzles are tested and have provided up to 300 times longer fire times than any of the imitators, and we might add, a lower cost. Our process control does not rely on tribal knowledge or that special team member to apply the coating. No, we engineered the entire process to provide for repeatable, reliable, high quality parts thru the use of computer systems and sophisticated tooling applications as well as dedicated furnaces, equipment and facilities.

Or maybe you use a highly toxic process, detrimental to the environment process to coat jet engine parts. You’re concerned about the environment and you know the process won’t last many more years. Thermal-Vac Advantage to the rescue.

Thermal-Vac has developed a high temperature aluminide coating that can handle the rigors of a jet engine. Our process provides a uniform layer of material to protect the substrate. Our system is non-toxic to the environment, and not tribal knowledge dependant. We are currently setting up a facility for this process in Arizona.

In the brazing world, brazing with Nickel Braze Alloys has it limitation in that the alloy is supplied mainly in powder form, there is also tape form. For some nickel base materials you can procure foil form also. The braze alloy forms limit the ability to use nickel base alloys on channel rocket nozzles and other geometrically challenged assemblies, there is also the issue of cost of foil and tape forms. Thermal-Vac Advantage to the rescue.

We have developed an application technique by which we can coat various assemblies with specific thickness of a variety of alloy powders. The application of which is acceptable to furnace brazing, or diffusion to achieve specific corrosion barriers or excellent braze joints. The coating is robust in that it can be subjected to cooling in liquid nitrogen or heating in air up to 300 Degrees Fahrenheit. Call us to find out more.

Note all of the above processes are proprietary to the Thermal-Vac Advantage. We can discuss application however we cannot share specific recipes.