The Foseco Foundryman's Handbook: Facts, Figures, and FormulaeHardbound. Provides practical guidance, suggestions and recommendations on making castings by all common casting methods. Aided by clear diagrams and comprehensive physical data tables, the text defines technical terms, details the procedures used in good foundry practice, describes the industrial plant used and gives lucid explanations of casting phenomena with helpful advice on overcoming problems encountered in casting processes. Thoroughly updated, the revisions for this edition include important new sections covering metal filtration, computer applications, resin-bonded sand, self-setting processes, mould and core coatings and feeding aids. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in foundry practice. |
Contents
Weight of casting from weight of pattern | 47 |
Usual thickness of chills for chilled rolls | 53 |
Botting practice for cupola operators | 59 |
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38 mm section acid addition aluminium alloys aluminium-silicon alloys application ASTM binder brass bronze carbon dioxide cast iron casting section cerium charge chill Chromium coating composition copper crucible cupola CUPRIT degassing deoxidation DEOXIDISING TUBES diameter die-casting dressings dross DYCOTE effect eutectic exothermic feeder feeding FG FG fluidity FOSECO foundry furnace G G G g per 50 GASBINDA grade grain refinement graphite gunmetal heat treatment hydrogen hyper-eutectic ingot inoculant KALMIN Kalminex ladle machining magnesium Manganese material maximum mechanical properties Medium melt method molten metal moulding box moulds and cores N/mm˛ Nickel NUCLEANT oxide oxidising Pearlite phosphorus plunged plunger pouring temperature powder pressure produced quantity reaction refractory resin resistance risers runner sand castings scrap shrinkage silicate silicon slag sleeve sodium Sprue Steel Castings suitable sulphur surface tablets tellurium tensile strength test bar thickness weight zinc Р Р