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Permanent Mold Casting

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Edelbrock Aluminum Foundry and Machining Full Tour & Behind the Scenes! (Pouring Molten Metal!)

What happens here

This step showcases a permanent mold casting machine, which uses large cast iron molds instead of sand. A robotic arm automatically pours molten aluminum into the permanent mold, and once cooled, the mold opens to release the casting. This method allows for repeated use of the mold, offering consistency for high-volume parts. The cast parts then move along a conveyor for further cooling.

Goal: Understand the process of permanent mold casting using reusable metal molds.

Tools and materials

  • Conveyor System — Transporting cast parts for cooling
  • Permanent Mold Machine — Casting parts using reusable cast iron molds
  • Robotic Arm — Automating the pouring process into permanent molds
  • Molten Aluminum — Material for permanent mold casting

What they say

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Those are some strong shells. What are they doing right here? So, not only do we have sound capabilities of molding, but we have permanent molds. These are big cast iron molds that'll make you the same part every time. So, this cast iron, it's nice and cold right now. If it was running, it would be super duper hot. Over there, we have our metal bath and our robot arm that'll pour it in here. As you can see, that's our pouring cup that'll catch it. It'll close up. It'll load up the core and it'll spin it up. Robot will come pick it back up, send it down the cooling line over there. Cassie said, you can see the core sticking out. Does that metal stay molten all the time? No. They turn it off at night or do they run the metal? Yeah, it'll stay hot all the time. Probably take like a few couple hours. You lose a lot of production time. You try to cool it. They heat it back up after it's cool. So, it stays on third. Does this run all the time or does they leave at night? There's two ships. So, the second step will come and run it. These would be what you consider a finished casting. They've already been blasted and everything and they're ready to be wrapped up and sent to one of our We have like three machine shops here. We have a machine shop in Olive Branch. They're ready to machine it down for you. Ah, so this finish is made in that

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