Investment Casting Advantages

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The cost of any part increases in direct proportion to the precision of its dimensional tolerance requirements. This is true of castings, as well as fabricated and machined parts. Investment castings are designed to minimize the cost of producing close tolerance parts.

Maintaining close dimensional tolerance in an investment casting is affected by many factors. Most of these factors can be controlled by the foundry, although minor "lot to lot" variations will occur. The tolerance bands provided for investment castings are determined by these uncontrollable factors.

While careful machining can achieve closer tolerances than available in an investment casting, a critical design view will often permit minor expansion of tolerances, undercuts, blind holes, etc. to allow the higher production yields and lower piece costs possible with investment castings. If closer than cast tolerances are necessary, the machining required on an investment casting will still be substantially less than on conventional cast or fabricated pieces.

Questions about investment casting advantages? Contact us today for all your investment casting needs.

Alcumet, Inc. is a leader in the production of aerospace castings, military castings, prototype castings, aluminum investment castings
and beryllium copper investment castings. MA, Massachusetts, NH, New Hampshire, CT, Connecticut, RI, Rhode Island, VT, Vermont, ME, Maine, New England, USA

Investment Casting Advantages

Questions about investment casting advantages? Contact us today for all your investment casting needs.

Alcumet, Inc. is a leader in the production of aerospace castings, military castings, prototype castings, aluminum investment castings and beryllium copper investment castings. MA, Massachusetts, NH, New Hampshire, CT, Connecticut, RI, Rhode Island, VT, Vermont, ME, Maine, New England, USA

Alcumet, Inc. is a leader in the production of aerospace castings, military castings, prototype castings, aluminum investment castings
and beryllium copper investment castings. MA, Massachusetts, NH, New Hampshire, CT, Connecticut, RI, Rhode Island, VT, Vermont, ME, Maine, New England, USA