Love Casting

you need to pack the sand tight into the cope and drag and make sure that the mould is free from any dust.

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Aluminum is put into the crucible and heated to 660oC until is molten. A degassing tablet is put in to help all the impurities separate from the pure aluminium. The cope and drag, with the mould inside the sand, is placed underneath the crucible. The molten aluminium is poured into the runner until it comes out of the riser.

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Heat 1 of 3- Investment Casting of Steel in the research foundry at Missouri University of Science & Technology. I’m the person controlling the furnace and turning the wheel on the ladle.

I had a problem with the steel not wanting to go into the shell mold part way through. After we stood around bored for a couple seconds, we finally gave up.

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Heat 2 of 3- Investment Casting of Steel in the research foundry at Missouri University of Science & Technology. I’m the person controlling the furnace and turning the wheel on the ladle.

In addition to making castings, we were also taking thermal readings from inside the first shell mold. You can see the white insulation running out of the container, which was used to protect the wires.

This one happens to include a segment at the end with Simon talking to me about proper ladle orientation while moving.

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Heat 3 of 3- Investment Casting of Steel in the research foundry at Missouri University of Science & Technology. I’m the person controlling the furnace and turning the wheel on the ladle.

The crane operator gets a bit disoriented, but we managed.

The ending has one of Simon’s stories, but the person recording cut it off. Be thankful for that.

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