Investment Casting

Investment casting is the production of industrial parts through the metallic replication of wax models. In the first step of this process, investment casting manufacturers inject wax into an aluminum die to create an injection-molded wax pattern that is in turn used to form a model of the proposed finished product. The resulting wax pattern is used to form a ceramic mold, which can be created using the ceramic mold process or the solid mold process. Ceramic shell molds are created by dipping the wax pattern into ceramic material, called slurry, and allowing the ceramic material to harden. Solid molds are formed by placing a wax pattern into a flask and filling the flask with plaster, which hardens into a mold. Once the slurry or plaster hardens, the wax pattern is melted out of the mold, and the molds are heated to remove leftover wax and to prepare the mold for casting. The mold is then filled with molten metal, which will harden into the final product. Once the metal has cooled, the mold is broken away

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