WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE YOU BEGIN AN OUTSOURCING INVESTMENT CASTING PRODUCTS?

Small differences in the investment casting process lead to greatly different (i.e. sometimes poor) results. Experience is great to have, but if you don’t have it, here are a few things you can do to improve your chances of success.

1. Follow instructions carefully and seek out the advice of the local investment casting experts. Investment casting is an involved process. Get help from a Technical Advisor who has experience casting.

2. Pick a reasonable size casting. Bigger projects are harder and take longer. Ring or jewelry-sized castings are on the easy end of the investment casting scale (although even smaller items become more difficult). Castings that are the size of a banana are harder, and those the size of a loaf of bread are at the upper limit of the PRL’s capabilities.

3. Start early. The process takes a long time, and castings don’t always come out. Which means if you cast your carefully crafted goat head in week 9 of the quarter and something goes wrong, you probably won’t get a second try.