In aluminum investment casting, a disposable wax pattern must be made for each part to be formed from molten aluminum. To make those wax patterns, low-temperature paste wax is injected into cavity ...

Creating components with complex internal structures is a difficult business. Not only do you have to be able to define the necessary geometry, using a material that can withstand the conditions ...

PURPOSE AND SCOPE The Wax Pattern Assembly Operator is responsible for performing start of shift checks on the wax injection machine, monitoring and adding wax to the heater when it is low, setting up ...

The wax injection molding process is used to produce models for investment casting quickly and easily. For a non-destructive demolding of the wax parts, silicone-based release agents have had to be ...

Investment casting offers several advantages over other production methods. But to make full use of the technology, designers must be aware of its limitations. Here are several tips for getting the ...

Geoff Watts’s article provides an interesting examination of the development of methods of making solid casts of delicate hollow structures in the human body by injecting liquids that then solidify ...