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 ...

One way around this is to use your 3D printed parts as patterns for casting in something tougher like aluminium. That’s precisely what [Brian Oltrogge] did to produce an attractive wall hook ...

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 ...