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Stainless Steel Investment Casting: Golf Clubs and More

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I am a terrible golfer. That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy it, but I have no illusions about my abilities as a golfer or my prospects for improvement. This past summer, after having played golf maybe a dozen times every year since late elementary school, I sank my first par. It was simultaneously exciting and embarrassing (but mostly exciting). My current set of clubs is composed mainly of stainless steel club heads and, I think, stainless Continue reading →

Titanium Investment Casting: Less Common, but Just as Important

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Titanium is not your typical investment casting metal. The combination of its very high melting point and its high cost can make titanium less attractive than lighter, more malleable, less expensive metals. Aluminum, stainless steel, copper and nickel are more commonly investment cast than titanium. However, in certain ways, titanium is well-suited to Continue reading →

How Precision Investment Casting Services Serve Industry

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I once saw a video about the investment casting process, and I was struck by a few things as I was watching it. First, I was struck by the number of different phases involved in the process of investment casting products. The pattern making phases, the shell coating phases, the casting phase and the shell breaking phase each seem complicated enough without being combined together into one metalworking process. I was also struck by how such imprecise-looking shells could produce Continue reading →

Copper: Made for Copper Investment Casting

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My family used to make regular trips to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan each Memorial Day. First we would travel to Mackinac Island, and from that point we would head to our hotel in St. Ignace. One year, at some point during our trip, at a gift shop I bought a little plastic box filled with pure copper flakes. I still don’t know why this appealed to me. I don’t know where the box is now, and I have no desire to search for it. After all, that souvenir caused problems for me. When I returned to Continue reading →

Why Aluminum Investment Casting?

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It’s no surprise that aluminum isn’t excluded from the investment casting party. Aluminum features a wide range of physical properties that make it a favorable candidate for investment casting. The primary reasons for aluminum’s popularity are its high strength-to-weight ratio and its corrosion resistance. Aluminum is a very strong metal considering its weight. Certain aluminum alloys are attractive alternatives to ferrous metals because they can provide comparable strength without Continue reading →