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Objectives:: On The Completion of This Period, You Would Be Able To Know

This document discusses casting as a manufacturing process. It provides details on casting including: defining casting as the process of making products from molten metal; listing advantages as being cheap and fast while allowing intricate shapes; disadvantages as only being suitable for certain materials which require melting; and describing the key steps of pattern making, mold making, melting/pouring, finishing, and inspection. Common molding tools like flasks, boxes, and boards are also outlined.

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Objectives:: On The Completion of This Period, You Would Be Able To Know

This document discusses casting as a manufacturing process. It provides details on casting including: defining casting as the process of making products from molten metal; listing advantages as being cheap and fast while allowing intricate shapes; disadvantages as only being suitable for certain materials which require melting; and describing the key steps of pattern making, mold making, melting/pouring, finishing, and inspection. Common molding tools like flasks, boxes, and boards are also outlined.

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Objectives:

On the completion of this period, you would


be able to know:

• Importance of castings

• Advantages of castings

• Disadvantages of castings

•List of various hand molding tools

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What is manufacturing ?
• Manufacturing is the process of transferring the raw material
into finished products.

List out the different manufacturing processes


• Metal Cutting (Machining)
• Metal forming
• Casting
• Powder metallurgy
• Fabrication
What is Machining

• Machining is the process of removing excess

materials from the work piece to make it into finished

products:

eg:- shafts, bolts , nuts etc.

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What is foundry?

The process of making products from molten


metal is called “foundry” and products obtained are
called castings..

eg:- Fly wheel , gears ,engine cylinder block

Fig. 1 Cylinder block Fig.2. Valve

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Advantages of foundry

• It is cheapest manufacturing process


• It is very fast.
• Intricate shapes can be produced.
• No wastage of material .
• Suitable for mass production
Limitations of Foundry

• Only suitable for materials with castability such


as C I , aluminum, Al alloys, gold etc

• Needs Furnace to produce molten metal

• Usually casting are brittle and not to tough.


Steps of Operations

The sequence of steps involved in casting are :


• Pattern making

• Mould and core making

• Melting and pouring

• Fettling, and

• Inspection
Molten Metal

• Cast Iron, Aluminum etc. are melted in Various


furnaces.

Fig 4. Melting in furnace

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Mould
• It is a hollow cavity of casting.
• Made of moulding sand .
• Moulding sand is natural sand or synthetic
sand .
• Pattern is kept in the moulding sand to prepare
mould.

Fig 5. Mould
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Pattern

• A model of required casting .


• Made of light materials like wood , plastic.
• Used to make Mould.

Fig 6. Pattern
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List of Hand Moulding Tools

Moulding Flask:
• Used for small castings.
• Made of wooden or metal frame.
• Made into two parts (cope and drag).
• It is rigid frame.

Fig 7. Moulding flask Fig 8 Moulding tools


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List of Hand Moulding Tools(contd..)

Moulding Boxes:

• Used for large castings .


• Made of wooden frame.

Fig 9. Moulding Boxes

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List of Hand Moulding Tools (contd..)

Moulding Board:
• It is a smooth wooden board.
• Pattern is placed on board.
• Moulding box also is placed on it.
• Moulding sand is poured and rammed to make
compact.

Fig 10. Moulding Board


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Summary

In this class , we have stated that,

• Manufacturing is the process of making products from


raw materials.
•Casting is the process dealing with molten metals
•Advantages of casting as fast and cheapest manufacturing
method
•Disadvantage as it is suitable to some metals
•Pattern ,moulding box, board etc are casting tools

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Quiz

1. The Top part of Moulding Box is


__________________ .

2. Bottom part of Moulding Box is ___________.

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Quiz

3.The mould material is _________________.

4. Mould is made by using _____________ which is model


of casting .
Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is meant by mould?

2. What is meant by casting?

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