Australian Vacuum Services

06/09/2026

Ensuring worker safety and strict regulatory compliance in semiconductor manufacturing is non-negotiable. 🛡️
Regular helium leak detection on dangerous gas pumping and exhaust lines is a critical step in maintaining these high standards, ensuring operational excellence, and, most importantly, protecting our teams on the floor.
Check out this brief look at the process in action!
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05/09/2026

04/09/2026

Oil weeping from your Alcatel Pascal? Here’s how we diagnose it. 🛠️

We’re troubleshooting a classic case today: slow oil leak originating from one of three seal points — oil box, main shaft, or gas ballast port. All three have different root causes and repair strategies.

The clue? The collection tray tells the story:

• Light weep = seal wear (normal after 5–10k hours)
• Steady drip = seal degradation (time for rebuild)
• Gush = catastrophic failure (stop the pump NOW)

Our approach: systematic pressure testing, surface inspection, and component analysis before we recommend a fix.

For vacuum techs troubleshooting pumps: what diagnostic steps do you rely on first?

02/09/2026

Heading to JASIS 2026 this week?

Our Japanese partners, Innovation Science, are exhibiting at JASIS 2026 from 2nd-4th September, representing Henniker Plasma on booth 6A-503.

If you're working on adhesion, wettability or surface activation, stop by and say hello. The Innovation Science team can talk through how plasma treatment might work for your own substrates, and help you find the right system for the job.

📍 Booth 6A-503, JASIS 2026, Makuhari Messe, Chiba.

31/08/2026

Service call to lab this morning, plasma system wasn’t working. Quick thinking, vacuum gauge at hand, checking few pumps, all good. Only needed oil change, but level of vacuum was good enough. Looking at the HPT-200 single gas inlet with MFC backing. Plasma in chamber looked centred around the electrode only. Quick checking the parameters on the system right away showed the problem. The flow rate was set too low basically preventing any gas coming into the system. Showed the staff the difference pressure and flow rate has on a uniformly distributed plasma in the chamber. The effect is quite dramatic. -200 Henniker Plasma Australian Vacuum Services

28/08/2026

27/08/2026

Another plasma tool installed with demonstrating improved surface energy on glass microscopy slides after few minutes in Argon gas plasma. Swagelok ferrule, nut assembly makes for leak tight gas introduction to MFC from two-stage regulator/ bottle. Dyne kit bottle set confirms activation every time reliably. Henniker Plasma

25/08/2026

The cleanest surface preparation often uses no liquid chemicals at all.

Many adhesion and coating processes still rely on solvent wipes, chemical primers or wet-chemical pre-treatments to make a surface bondable. They work, but they bring the cost, handling and disposal of hazardous chemicals, added drying time, and a process that is hard to keep consistent.

Plasma treatment replaces much of that with a dry, in-line step. A short exposure cleans the surface at the molecular level and raises its surface energy using only process gas and electricity; no solvents, no primers, no liquid waste. The result is more consistent than a manual wipe and far easier to control batch to batch.

As manufacturers work to cut hazardous chemicals and tighten process control, dry plasma pre-treatment is becoming the more sustainable default rather than the exception.

Looking to design solvents or primers out of your process?
📧 Contact us: https://buff.ly/nFwf7VN

25/08/2026

While servicing vacuum and pump systems sometimes you have to take ownership of your work and if that means visiting the customer on-site to deliver and to stand behind your work, so be it. Great to meet the team who were keen to assist with brainstorming, pump tear down and investigating possible air leaks preventing this pump to reach respectable vacuum levels. Several attempts to fix the obvious and in last few minutes before the Uber driver arrived managed to pull deeper into ~5-e2 mBar range finally.