The investment casting process, like other casting processes, is not too hard to understand. The analogy I like to use when explaining it is the clay dough analogy. Imagine that you’ve got a piece of clay dough, and you pick it up with both hands. If you squish the dough together and then pull your hands straight apart, out will fall a piece of clay dough that is shaped like the space between your hands and is imprinted with the mirror image of the surface of your hands. This is what Continue reading →