Basic Information of Investment Casting Parts

Investment casting is also known as lost-wax casting method in the modern industrial world, precision lost-wax casting produces wax casting parts with high accuracy, tight tolerances and steady precision. This investing casting method provides excellent quality makes a variety of metals and high-performance alloys.

Benefits

1) Precision casting method makes elaborately designed castings possible.

2) The process of investment casting can be used to nearly any metal or alloy.

3) The process is applied with commons metals like aluminum, copper alloys and steels as well.

Difficult

The difficult of metal porosity has been overcome when producing investment casting parts. Sluggish rates of solidification and low mechanical properties make porosity controllable with correct quality precision casting techniques.

Applications

1) Investment casting parts are commonly applied in the aerospace industry in larger sizes, e.g. entire aircraft doorframes.

2) Investment casting are used in the power generation industry making large turbine blades.

3) Investment casting parts are so varied they have come to be standardized in the firearms industry , e.g. receivers and triggers.

4) Investment casting parts are standardized in military, medical and automotive industries.