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Casting Of Components
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CNC Machining of Castings
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Assembling process with (6x)
plain bronze bearings pressed in.
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Surface finishing
(Powder Paint Coating)
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Shipment of finish painted and assembled components to costumer's production line.
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[timeline-express]
UK Investment Casting | Outsourced Investment Casting | Outsourced Sand casting | Outsourced Gravity die casting | Outsourced Pressure die casting | Outsourced Forging | |
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Weight range achievable (kg) | 0.01 - 25 | 0.01 - 75 | 1 - 500 | 0.5 - 25 | 0.01 - 25 | 0.03 - 25 |
Typical Unit Volume per year | 250 - 5,000 | 250 - 100,000 | 1 - 5,000 | 100 - 50,000 | 5,000 - 1,000,000 | 10,000 - 100,000 |
Pattern / tooling cost | Moderate | Low | Low | Moderate | High | Moderate |
Cost of Tooling change | Moderate | Low | Low | Moderate | High | Moderate |
Flexibility of design | Excellent | Excellent | Very high | High | Relatively high | Low |
Minimum wall thickness, mm | 0.5 | 1 | 3 | 2.5 | 1 | 2 |
Finishing Costs | Low | Low | High | Low - Moderate | Low | Low - Moderate |
Dimension accuracy, Tolerances in accordance with ISO 8062 | CT4 - CT6 | CT5 -CT7 | CT9 - CT10 | CT 6 - CT8 | CT4 | CT5 - CT6 |
Draft Angle Needed (deg) | 0 - 0.5 | 0 - 0.5 | 2 | 2 | 0.5 - 1 | 1 - 2 |
Surface finish (Ra) | 3.2 | 3.2 | 6.3 | 3.2 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
Casting alloy Bases | Carbon Steel | Carbon Steel | Cast Iron | Aluminium | Aluminium | Aluminium |
Stainless Steel | Stainless Steel | Aluminium | Brass | Copper Base | ||
Monel | Monel | Zinc | Stainless Steel | |||
Cobalt Chrome | Cobalt Chrome | Carbon Steel | ||||
Brass | Brass | |||||
Bronze | Bronze | |||||
Duplex Stainless steel | Duplex Stainless steel | |||||
Aluminium | Aluminium | |||||
Precipitation Stainless Steel | Precipitation Stainless Steel | |||||
Hastelloy | Titanium | |||||
Hastelloy | ||||||
UK Investment Casting | Outsourced Investment Casting | Outsourced Sand casting | Outsourced Gravity die casting | Outsourced Pressure die casting | Outsourced Forging |