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Investment Castings

Stainless Steel Investment Castings , Steel Investment Castings

Low Cost - High Quality Steel Invesment Castings

. STEEL INVESTMENT CASTINGS CAST - MACHINED - FINISHED Steel investment castings are normally less than 10 lbs (4.5 kgs). The investment casting process is more labor intensive than the die casting process and sand casting process, but with lower equipment costs. The steel investment casting process can produce shapes that would be difficult or impossible with die casting, and extremely expensive to machine from billet. However, like the die casting process, the investment casting process will produce parts that require little surface finishing, with an as cast finish of 60 to 200 RMS. The steel investment casting process can not only produce complex shapes, it can also provide excellent dimensional accuracy, 0.005" for the first inch (0.1mm for the first 25mm), and 0.002" for each additional inch (0.02mm for each additional centimeter). The investment casting process will achieve a visually attractive, close tolerance part, that will need little, if any, secondary machining to complete.

The investment casting process has been used for thousands of years, initially for idols, ornaments, and jewelry. The demand for precision net manufactured components in stainless steel alloys increased dramtically during World War II. The time and expense to obtain these components from traditional machining was to slow, expensive, and resulted in the loss of too much material. As a result of that demand, the use of the steel investment casting process expanded to many commercial and industrial applications. Today, the steel investment casting process is used for a wide range of end users, such as aerospace, automotive, commercial, medical, and military.

Casting Source already has good long term working relationships with numerous off shore steel investment casting foundries. Let our steel investment casting experience be your strategic global sourcing solution. Contact us today.

Steel Investment Castings

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