investment casting (wax press, tooling and cure furnace), gas and crucible melting, no-bake core melting, evaporative pattern casting and grinding and finishing. This lab allows for the custom ...

At it’s core, here are the steps involved in lost wax, or investment, casting: Make a pattern: a wax or plastic replica of the part you’d like to create in metal Make a mold: pour plaster ...

Kelly Coffield] makes intake manifolds for old Ford throttle bodies for fun, demonstrating an excellent technique for making such things in the small shop. The mould patterns are CNC machined ...