Furnace X-rays???

John G. Merritt

Guys,

In my area of the country there is a HVAC company advertising "Hydroscan" which they claim was created during the gulph war. They claim they can X-ray your furnace in order to check for even micro cracks in the heat exchanger!
(At $99.00 a pop) Ever hear of this?? Maybe it should be called MICROSCAM?

John

Greg_4

We use a

borescope with a 24" flexible tip to look up HeatX's, but this sounds like a water device with the term hygro...???
Do you know what they use? I think next year we will incorporate this (borescope) as a usual and customary inspection process in our Fall Light Up service program. Only takes a very little more time to insert up most HeatX's. Greg

ed wallace

xrays

never heard of it i know the airlines and air force have something like that to find week spots in the aircrafts they fly but its based on ultrasound waves i did not know you could use xrays on metal i thought that was a no no due to radiation

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Mason

X-Ray

Well, I'd have to say that you can use X-Ray on metal because that is how they do some of the testing on welds.
Mason

ed wallace

xrays

mason is right the can xray pipes to check for bad welds i forgot that they do that at nuke power plants and also they did that on the alaskian oil pipeline still not sure about how it would be done on a furnace and how will the could interpert the xrays after all in hospitals they have trained technicians or docters read them and sometimes they miss important problems

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