1. How Alloy Casting Manufacturers Determine Defects? 2. Iron casting is an alloy metal which is obtained by melting of pig iron, silicon, and carbon together in a furnace. The defects usually occur due to several reasons. Alloy Casting Manufacturers are able to repair some of the defects to an extent. In case, the defects cant be repaired then they need to eliminate castings. Tip to share Alloy castings must be cooled under low pressure to eliminate the risk of defects. Tip to share Alloy castings must be cooled under low pressure to eliminate the risk of defects. 3. Defects can be occurred during pouring molten metal, molding, or solidification process. There are number of defect types that exist in an alloy casting and out of all the reasons, porosity is the most common one behind the defect. Determining the alloy casting defects helps manufacturers and QA team to recognize the main cause behind it and ways to repair it. Here in this post we are sharing few casting defects that can be identified: 4. 1.Sand Drop This casting defect occurs when the used mold is not properly cleaned in the spaces around its interface, sleeve, chills, and breaker core. Engineers working in casting manufacturing foundries can eliminate this defect by cleaning the mould thoroughly before closure in order to ensure that the sand doesnt enter the sleeve. Engineers have to ensure that shell core is replaced with no-bake core that will help in eliminating the core crushing probability. 2. Mismatch Mismatch defect occurs in the casting due to two reasons- locator shortage and when the cores are set in incorrect manner. Casting manufacturers can determine this defect by using six locators- three self locators and the remaining are metallic locator. 3. Oversize Oversized castings are made when there is swelling in the mold and the mold lift at the molding stage. This issue can be fixed by fastening the molds so that they could withstand pouring pressure. Engineers should use C-clamps for fastening the center of mold when the molten metal is poured inside the cast. 5. 4. Buckle Buckle defect happens due to expansion of silica sand inside the ferrous alloy castings. 5. Slag inclusion Slag inclusion occurs when the metal and mold get into contact and build low melting slag which remains intact to the casting surface. This is the most common defect that Alloy Casting Manufacturers find in their produced casting. This can be repaired by using metal caster which reduces the pouring temperature. 6. Registered Office Address: Phone: Fax: Email: Web Site: Survey No. 160, Bhavnagar-Rajkot Highway, Shampara 364 060 (Rajpara-Khodiyar) Dist. Bhavnagar +91-278-2541097/2541099 91-278-2541098 contact@trushapecastings.com http://www.trushapecastings.com/