Stop Fighting With Your Furnace Layout
If you’ve ever worked with a compact glass bending furnace, you know the frustration. You buy standard infrared lamps, but they never quite fit. You end up with these annoying “dead zones” where the heat just doesn’t hit, or you’re forced to leave gaps because the off-the-shelf lengths are just… off. It’s a headache. And in glass work, a headache usually means a ruined piece of glass.
Making it Fit (Actually Fit)
When your heating is uneven, you get the things nobody wants: optical distortion or those dreaded stress fractures. It’s a nightmare. That’s why we don’t do “standard.” We build quartz lamps to your exact length and shape. If you need the heating element to cover every single millimeter of that glass sheet, we make it happen. And if your furnace is crowded with sensors or structural beams in the way? No problem. We can bend and shape the tubes to snake around the obstacles. No gaps, no cold spots, just a steady, consistent flow of heat.
The Technical Stuff (And the Catch)
We usually stick with shortwave IR. Why? Because it punches through the glass fast. You can pick the voltage and wattage that works with your power grid. If you go for high-wattage in a short tube, you get an incredible amount of heat density. It’s powerful. But here’s the thing: you have to be careful. If you cram that much power into a tiny space without getting your airflow right, you’re asking for a burnout. Just make sure your cooling system can handle the extra heat hanging around the lamp housings.
Swapping Them Out
Nobody wants to spend a weekend rewiring an entire electrical panel just to upgrade a heater. We handle the boring parts for you. We offer different termination options—specific lead wire lengths, reinforced connectors—whatever you need so the swap feels like a drop-in replacement. It fits the physical hole in your machine, it plugs into your existing loom, and it hits the exact temperature your glass needs to transition. Simple.