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Surface Finishing & Final Inspection

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

What happens here

After machining, parts undergo further inspection and specialized surface treatments. This includes blasting to achieve an even finish and applying unique coatings such as 'Plasma' (chrome-like) or 'Black Plasma' (black chrome-like) finishes, which are replacements for traditional EnduraShine. The parts are then hand-finished to address any small details and ensure quality, as some intricate tasks cannot be perfectly replicated by machines. This manual finishing also serves as an additional quality control step.

Goal: Apply specialized finishes and conduct thorough final inspections to ensure product quality and aesthetics.

Tools and materials

  • Blasting Equipment — Creating an even surface finish prior to coating
  • Hand Grinders/Deburring Tools — Manually cleaning and refining parts
  • Inspection Tools — Precisely measuring and inspecting finished parts for conformity
  • Machine for Surface Finishing — Applying Plasma or Black Plasma coatings
  • Black Plasma Coating — Applying a black chrome-like finish
  • Plasma Coating — Applying a chrome-like finish

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no issues there. Starts in the yellow getting a little less and less. Right? So visually what that could look like if you cut that casting is a small speck right inside. So that whole thing could just be a speck. Just a speck. And it's just showing us that level of severity how it would come into that speck and and be there, right? Wow. Odds are if you did see this in the casting, it would just be a small little dip that would be in the casting. It wouldn't be anything visual that you would see and it's not there. And again, we do this is one of our high running castings that we make. And so, yes, you don't see that. It's not it's not really there, but it shows you that there's that tendency there. So, you want to pay attention to it and make sure if you can that you address it. So, something real little like these, you would never it doesn't even mean anything in the final product, right? Unless on these, since this is your flange that's mounting to your uh to the head, right? So, if you cut into that and it was actually in that flange right up against the surface, then that could be a defect that would cause you not to have a seal, not to have an issue. you know, to have an issue there around that ceiling edge. So, we would definitely look into that. But, as you see, these are actually down in the runner sides of it. So, this is basically a a simulated data log of the entire pore. That's right. Right. Huh. Gives you the views that we used to have to take the casting, not only sample the casting, but then uh finish the casting and cut it up and sometimes machine those areas because even when you cut it with a saw, you can't see the defect. It's so small. So then you machine it to make it a really nice shiny surface that you can see that defect in. Right. But now we can see it broad daylight, you know, really highlighted in a program like this. That's freaking cool. I love this stuff. So what is this thing here? This is actually core plugs. It represents the cores that would make the internal passages of a manifold. And on this one, it's an assembly. This this is exactly how the cores would be made. This is actually one core that can fit both sides. So, it's a single core that's just made twice. And then this is the central core. And this is actually the old core design. So, in striving for efficiency and improvements, we've remade this core to where now it's made in a box with and it comes out as all one piece. We do not have to do assembly. We don't have…

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