Aluminum Casting

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Uses

• The automotive industry is the largest market for
  aluminum castings
• More than half of the aluminum used in cars.
• Used in transportation industry like aircraft and
  marine engines and other equipments.
• Parts of small appliances, hand tools such as for
  carpentry, plumbing, and garden, water and air
  pumps, lawnmowers, cooking wares, kitchen
  utensils, home decorations and different
  appliances, electronics and casing for high tech
  gadgets, various childrens toys

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Most common types

• Aluminum Die Casting
• Aluminum Investment Castings
• Permanent Casting
• Sand Casting
• Plaster Casting
• Shell Casting
• Lost Foam Aluminum Casting

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Aluminum Die Casting

• Process aluminium or other molten metal is
  forced into the molds under high pressure.
• Used in automobile, aerospace and power tool
  industries.
• Types
• low-pressure die casting,
• vacuum die casting,
• squeeze die casting and
• semi-solid die casting

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Aluminum Investment Castings/ Lost Wax Casting

• Process wax is injected (invested) into a die as
  part of the process of producing an exact pattern
  of the item that is to be manufactured.
• Uses electronics, defense, aerospace, avionics,
  pump, engine, and valve industries.

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Permanent Casting

• Process Use of gravity or vacuum to cast molten
  metal into the mold.
• Advantage Quite cost-effective and suitable for
  large number of castings
• Uses gears and gear housings, pipe fittings, and
  other automotive and aircraft components such as
  pistons, impellers, and wheels.

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Sand Casting

• One of the oldest methods
• Process Used for making sand moulds only. A
  pattern is made in the shape of the desired part.
• Benefits Sand casting is the least expensive of
  all castings including processes, including die
  and investment casting.

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Plaster Casting

• Process Plaster slurry Poured around wax then is
  baked. By doing so, the pattern will melt which
  will leave give you the desired shape.

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Shell Casting

• Uses a resin covered sand to form the mold
• Shell castings are used for producing castings
  with accurate dimension
• Quite expensive and hence is not used on a large
  scale

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Aluminum Casting Custom Components

• Aluminum casting is very suitable for high
  quality and precision-required custom components
• For this reason, most of high end engine
  equipments use aluminum components

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lost foam aluminum casting

• Lost-foam casting (LFC) is a type of
  evaporative-pattern casting process that is
  similar to investment casting except foam is used
  for the pattern instead of wax. This process
  takes advantage of the low boiling point of foam
  to simplify the investment casting process by
  removing the need to melt the wax out of the mold.

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