Australian Vacuum Services

30/10/2026

Scary vacuum | Horror vacui - Nature doesn’t abhor vacuum at all.. what’s not to like, oil mist vapours, suction noises and strange vibrations... keep you systems up and running using AVS service.

30/10/2026

How a Progressive Cavity Pump Actually Works ⚙️💧
Experiencing suction loss on your waste collection truck? Here is what’s happening inside:
🔄 The Mechanism: This progressive cavity pump uses a helical stainless steel rotor turning inside a rubber stator. As it rotates, fixed-volume cavity pockets form and progress forward, smoothly drawing in heavy, viscous waste fluids without pulsation.
🔍 Troubleshooting Suction Loss: Because these pumps rely on positive displacement and a sealed suction line:
1️⃣ Check the Inline Strainer: A clogged inlet filter stops fluid from filling the cavity.
2️⃣ Inspect Hose Connections: Even a tiny air leak in the suction line breaks the vacuum seal needed for self-priming.
Keep your equipment running smoothly and check those filters first! 🛠️
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29/10/2026

28/10/2026

Why do bonds fail on surfaces that look perfectly clean?

A strong bond is decided at the substrate, long before the adhesive is applied. Contamination, low surface energy and a lack of reactive sites all work against the joint. Plasma treatment addresses all three, without aggressive primers or solvents.

Swipe for 5 ways plasma improves bonding, from molecular-level cleaning to a repeatable process, batch after batch.

With over 20 years of real-world experience, our applications team can help you see the difference on your own components, through a Discovery Day or our Contract Plasma Treatment service.

Let’s discuss your application.

28/10/2026

You treated the surface, measured a healthy dyne level, and sent the part on. Two days later, the ink won’t hold.

This is rarely a treatment failure. It is hydrophobic recovery: the gradual return of a treated surface towards its original low-energy state.

Plasma activation raises surface energy immediately, but the effect is not permanent. Within hours, polar groups reorient, additives migrate up from the bulk, and airborne hydrocarbons settle onto the reactive surface. How fast it happens depends on temperature, time and storage.

The fix is process discipline: treat close to the point of use, measure at the point of use rather than off the line, and store parts cool, clean and sealed. Where a surface needs to stay functional for weeks rather than hours, CoatX® plasma-polymerised coatings are covalently bonded with no hydrophobic recovery to manage.

Activation remains the workhorse. The key is knowing how it behaves once the part leaves the chamber.

Swipe through for the full breakdown.
Troubleshooting dyne loss on your line? Let’s discuss your application: https://buff.ly/YvGdlx9

28/10/2026

Rebuilding a small KNF OEM diaphragm pump with 4x heads pulling a nice 2.1 mBar level once again after a deep clean and replacement of the valves, PTFE diaphragms and sealing rings. The turbostation is now much happier as reduced load on the turbopump. The system is running and pulling 1e-5 mBar and still going down.

27/10/2026

🔬 Building & Validating a Custom Multi-Gauge Vacuum Test Bench

Excited to share the latest milestone on the bench! I recently set up and tested a multi-vacuum gauge manifold designed for gauge calibration, real-time comparison, and system diagnostics.

Key Setup Highlights:
* Pumping Train: Turbomolecular pump backed by a scroll/rotary pump setup.
* Instrumentation: Inficon VGC402 & VGC023 controllers monitoring Pirani, Penning (cold cathode), and composite wide-range gauges.
* Gas Analysis: Inficon Transpector RGA with electron multiplier integrated via Swagelok fine-metering valve & quartz capillary tubing for micro-leak gas sampling.
* Data Integration: Live multi-channel logging to plot pump-down curves and directly compare sensor responses across vacuum regimes (ATM down to 10^{-8}\text{ mbar}).

Always satisfying to see the mass spectrum match expected baseline peaks (H_2O, N_2, O_2, Ar) alongside clean, real-time pressure logging.

VacuumSystems LabEquipment Inficon MassSpectrometry

27/10/2026