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Lost-Foam Casting molding machine

Process steps

1. Mold foam pattern sections.
2. Age pattern to allow dimensional shrinkage.
3. Assemble pattern if it is a multiple piece pattern.
4. Build cluster (multiple patterns per cluster).
5. Coat cluster.
6. Dry coating.
7. Compact cluster in flask.
8. Pour metal.
9. Extract cluster from flask.

Advantage:

LFC casting process is advantageous for very complex castings that would regularly require cores, to very simple castings saving environment and is more efficient, eventually better profits.

It is also dimensionally accurate, maintains an excellent surface finish, requires no draft, and has no parting lines so no flash of fins are formed. The finish accuracy is so good that even machining in many cases is not required.

As compared to investment (Lost Wax) casting, it is cheaper because it is a simpler process and the foam is cheaper than the wax.

Risers are not usually required due to the nature of the process; because the molten metal vaporizes the foam the first metal into the mold cools more quickly than the rest, which results in natural directional solidification.

Foam is easy to manipulate, carve and glue, due to its unique properties. The flexibility of LFC often allows for consolidating the parts into one integral component; other forming processes would require the production of one or more parts to be assembled.

About Qingdao Shengmei Machinery Co.,Ltd

We represents some of the world leaders in Vacuum Process and Lost Foam Molding Technologies. Provides Consultancy and Turnkey solutions for Foundry Modernization and Iron & Steel Projects.

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