Casting Misruns : What They Are And How To Fix Them
Have you ever had a misrun casting defect while welding and wondered how you to avoid it in the future? A misrun is a metal pouring defect. It happens when the liquid metal isn’t totally filling the cavity mold when it pours. This can be due to a lack of molten metal fluidity, and faulty…
What Is Cold Shut In Casting
What Is Cold Shut in Casting? You broke your 3/4-inch crescent wrench trying to loose that fitting on some stubborn, rusty old plumbing. Let that sink in for a moment. You broke a 3/4-inch crescent wrench. Sure, you really put your back and shoulder into it to add extra torque, but the wrench shouldn’t break…
What are all the types of casting defects?
Introduction Casting is a manufacturing process, in which hot molten metal is poured into a mold box, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape of the metal to be formed, and then allowed to solidify. That part solidified is known as a casting. Casting is a very versatile process and capable of being…