Nearly every defect on a ferrous sand casting traces to one of five causes: gas the mold could not vent,

Machining allowance is the extra metal left on a casting’s to-be-machined surfaces so the finishing cut can take off the

Ductile iron grades are sets of minimum mechanical properties defined by two standards: ASTM A536 in North America, with five

Heat treatment changes the matrix of a ductile iron casting — to ferrite, pearlite, tempered martensite or ausferrite — and

Sand castings are inspected with six NDT methods, and the one to call out depends on where the defect you

Sand casting shapes metal as a liquid, poured into a sand mold and solidified in place; forging shapes it as

Choose sand casting for any part that is not a plain body of revolution, and centrifugal casting for tubes, sleeves,

The ten sand casting factories below — Dawang Metals, Dandong Foundry, Shandong Useen, Ninghai Jinma, Taiyuan SIMIS, Haian Aoyu, Cangzhou

Shell mold casting holds tighter tolerances, a smoother as-cast surface and thinner walls than green sand; green sand costs less

Coated sand casting and resin sand casting differ in when the resin meets the sand and how it cures. Coated

Resin sand casting is sand casting in a mold bonded by a synthetic resin that hardens through a chemical reaction,

Casting patterns fall into eleven recognized types, and what separates them is not the shape of the part but how

Die casting is the better process for aluminum, zinc, and magnesium parts made in quantities that pay for a tool-steel

Green sand is the cheaper mold for small and medium ferrous castings made in volume; no-bake is the better process

Green sand casting is sand casting in a mold bonded with clay and water instead of a chemical resin. The

Sand casting is the process of forming a cavity in bonded sand around a pattern, pouring molten metal into that