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  2. Lost-foam casting - Wikipedia

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    Lost-foam casting (LFC) is a type of evaporative-pattern casting process that is similar to investment casting except foam is used for the pattern instead of wax. This process takes advantage of the low boiling point of polymer foams to simplify the investment casting process by removing the need to melt the wax out of the mold.

  3. Evaporative-pattern casting - Wikipedia

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    Evaporative-pattern casting is a type of casting process that uses a pattern made from a material that will evaporate when the molten metal is poured into the molding cavity. The most common evaporative-pattern material used is polystyrene foam. [1] The two major evaporative-pattern casting processes are: [1] Lost-foam casting; Full-mold casting

  4. Investment casting - Wikipedia

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    Lost-foam casting is a modern form of investment casting that eliminates certain steps in the process. Investment casting is so named because the process invests (surrounds) the pattern with refractory material to make a mould, and a molten substance is cast into the mold. Materials that can be cast include stainless steel alloys, brass ...

  5. Massena Castings Plant - Wikipedia

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    Massena Castings Plant (also known as the Central Foundry Division) [1] was a General Motors aluminium casting foundry located in Massena, New York.The plant utilized the die casting and lost-foam casting processes, operating from 1959 to May 2009.

  6. Category:Casting (manufacturing) - Wikipedia

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    Flask (metal casting) Foundry sand testing; Freeze gelation; Freeze-casting; Full-mold casting; ... Lost-foam casting; Lost-wax casting; M. Magnetic particle inspection;

  7. Casting - Wikipedia

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    The lost wax process originated in ancient Mesopotamia. The earliest known record of lost-wax casting is a clay tablet written in cuneiform in the ancient city of Sparta, Babylon, which specifically records how much wax is needed to cast a key. [6] The earliest-known castings in the global archaeological record were made in open stone molds. [7]

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  9. Talk:Lost-foam casting - Wikipedia

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    1 INCORRECT FROM WINAPESIA Lost-foam casting was invented in the early fifties by Canadian sculptor Armand Vaillancourt. Public recognition of the benefits of LFC was made by General Motors in the mid 1980s when it announced its new car line, Saturn, would utilize LFC for production of all engine blocks, cylinder heads, crankshafts, differential carriers, and transmission cases.[7]