{"id":59,"date":"2026-05-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/reading-a-furnace-chart-in-five-minutes\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:00:00","slug":"reading-a-furnace-chart-in-five-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/reading-a-furnace-chart-in-five-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading a furnace chart in five minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every heat-treated batch leaves our furnaces with a chart: temperature against time, one line per thermocouple. It is the only record of what the parts actually saw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Three things to check<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>The soak starts when the slowest thermocouple reaches temperature, not the furnace setpoint<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Soak time matches the section thickness on the drawing<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The cooling rate matches the procedure: quench, air or furnace cool<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our furnaces are surveyed to AMS 2750, so the thermocouples on the chart are themselves checked against a reference every quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramp, soak and cool: how to read the furnace chart that comes with a heat-treated part, and what to question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heat-treatment","tag-ams-2750"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preview.industrial.anpsthemes.com\/demo14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}