Investment castings are typically selected because they can be produced with fine detail, excellent "as-cast" surface finish, shape into internal or external features, thin walls, and internal passageways to get to a near net shape. This often leads to significant customer cost savings in material, labor and machining.
Process:
In investment casting, a sacrificial detailed wax pattern of the desired finished part is created and mounted onto a wax "tree", which includes the metal delivery system. The tree is alternately dipped into ceramic slurry and sprinkled with stucco material, and is allowed to dry. This process is repeated until a thick shell is created over the wax pattern. The wax pattern is melted out leaving a cavity in the shape of the pattern. The cavity is filled with molten metal. After solidification, the shell is broken away, the gating material removed, and the finished part remains.
Equipment:
50-500 kg medium frequency induction furnaces. Wax injection, wax welding, dipping, sand-coating, shell making, dewaxing, pouring, decoating, cutting and cleaning/shot blasting equipment. Heat treatment facilities for normalizing, annealing, quenching and tempering. High –frequency stove, fore and hind temperature meters, chemical analysis and mechanical test instruments
Material:
Carbon steel, Steel alloy, Stainless steel
Application:
Mining machinery, construction machinery, building industry, values and piping fitting, petroleum machinery, agricultural machinery, metallurgical machinery, vehicles, ships, and automobiles.
Capacity:
Casting tolerance CT5-CT7 Surface Roughness Ra3.212.5 Part weight 0.002KG-15.00KG The min wall thickness 0.5mm