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A family's day with Tungsten

Mother complained because of the high price, but now she is happy to see her husband relaxing after a hard day’s work, when optimizing the adjustment of the record players tone arm by fine tuning the position of the Tungsten counterweight. This Tungsten part is not only a counterweight, but is also vibration damping and thereby improving the audio quality.

Tungsten counterweight(photo by DIY Audio Projects)

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A family's day with Tungsten

The father is an audiophile and only recently bought an analogue vinyl record player.

Audiophiles prefer analogue vinyl record players

Parts of heavy metal or tungsten copper are used as counterweight and gearing block of the pick-up.

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A family's day with Tungsten

Tracing back the electric current to its source, we come to a transformer station and finally to the power station. In each case we find high-performance switches made of Tungsten-Copper. In case of a caloric power plant, DENOX-catalysts clean the exhaust from Nitrogen Oxides. A similar technology as described for the modern trucks the father has seen in the morning, but on a much bigger scale. Vanadium and Tungsten Oxide on Titanium oxide is responsible for this beneficial chemical reaction.

 electric power plant

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A family's day with Tungsten

We leave the mother at the golf course to have have a look at the children.

Daughter and Son:

They both left home after breakfast and use the train to go to school.

A new electric locomotive with several thousand horse power accelerates the train with ease. In the engine we find high voltage switches.

electric locomotive

Tungsten-copper arcing contacts are used for high performance switches with switching currents up to 100 kA.

Their contact zone consists of Tungsten-Copper parts, which are resistant to spark erosion. The engine gets the current from the overhead contact line, which has a special profile to withstand the high velocity at which the train is driving under the wire. For its manufacture Cemented Carbide drawing dyes are used and the same is true for all the wires we find in the engine. The thin copper sheet parts of the engine and the transformers were die cut by the use of Cemented Carbide tools.