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Replacing the glass cylinder on the E5100, E5150, SC510 and SC515 sputter coater

The E5100 has a glass chamber fitted into an aluminium collar. The collar is seated onto the base plate of the E5100.

E5100 collar and chamber

Should the glass cylinder need to be replaced Quorum Technologies will need to know the exact diameter of the glass chamber. Simply measuring the diameter is NOT enough, we need to know the exact size (to the nearest 0.1mm). This information is engraved onto the inner wall of the aluminium collar , either at the bottom (more usually) or the top, in which case the glass cylinder must first be removed.
Quorum Technologies keep some E5100 cylinders of slightly varying sizes and it may therefore be possible to supply an exact replacement from stock. If not the outer rim of the glass cylinder must be especially ground down to size. This may increase delivery time and cost. If you are in any doubt, please contact us.

Background
Due the method of manufacture glass cylinders have a size tolerance of + or – a few 0.1m. For this reason the aluminium collar needed to be tailored to suit the diameter of the glass chamber.
The E5100 / E5150 / SC510 / SC515 are discontinued products. When they were manufactured we used to keep a large stock of glass chambers. The problem now is that as a discontinued item we keep a much smaller stock, which means the chance of having a exact size glass chamber is small.