Foundry launches component design enquiry-line in
bid to raise awareness of the advantages of investment casting.
Design engineers whose inclination is to call for machining in the manufacture of components are
being invited to have free consultation with a senior metallurgist at Lost Wax Development Ltd's foundry, so that the possible advantages of using the investment casting process can be explored.
The company has introduced direct telephone access to its chairman, John Bennett, in response to what it sees as a persistent, low awareness - and even mythology- in some engineering circles about the benefits of investment casting.
"Investment casting can score over machining in accuracy, even hard-to-machine materials, producing parts to within 0.125mm per 25mm tolerance and better," comments Mr Bennett. "And it is quite wrong to think of a cast part as brittle."
"Many stainless and heat-resistant materials produced have an angle of bend 120° and a ductility of between 12% and 20%", he continues, "This ductility exist in any direction - not just the one direction as in bar form."
The company points to alloy steels being produced readily by the investment ('lost wax') casting process and heat-treated to 100N/mm2 and above. High carbon tools steels lend themselves particularly to this process, it says, achieving hardness in excess of Rc60.
Design engineers should contact Lost Wax Development via email or call 01299 871603 for a consultation with John Bennett, free of charge, about the application of investment casting to their particular component manufacturing needs.
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