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Metal Casting Facilities |
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| A wide variety of molding and core making processes are available at the Metal Casting Center |
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| Molding: shell, green-sand, no-bake, "v" process, permanent molding, die casting, EPC full mold and investment |
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| Cores: the core processes using a wide variety of core making systems, including shell sand, cold box, hot box, no-bake and GM Bond |
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| Melting: coreless induction furnace - 300 pound ferrous, 300 pound brass, 100 pound aluminum capacity. Gas-fired furnace - 90 pounds aluminum and 30 pounds brass capacity. |
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| Laboratory Facilities: core sand and mold sand laboratory |
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| Testing |
Metallurgical Laboratory |
| Core tensile test | Spectrometer |
| Green sand tensile test | NDT (non-destructive testing) |
| Compactability | Ultrasonic testing |
| Loss-on-ignition | Scanning electron microscopy |
| Moisture testing | Tensile and impact testing |
| Green sand compressive strength | |
| Green sand shear strength | |
| Methylene blue clay test | |
| Sand expansion | |
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