Melting
- Two 8,000-lb., coreless induction
melting furnaces, rated at 5 tons per hour
Molding &
Auxiliary Equipment
- Two 20" x 24" Sinto molding machines with Vulcan Tru-dex mold handling units
- Beardsley Piper 100B Speedmullor
- Two jolt squeezer molding machines. Flask sizes from 12"
x 18" up to 18" x 18"
- Two Roto-Lift molding machines. Flask sizes from 16"
x 24" up to 24" x 24"
- Two 50-ton storage bins for bond and raw sand additions
- Auto feed sand conveyors to molding centers
- Ability to adapt Hunter 10 and Hunter 20 plates to our molding
machines
- Casting Weights: Gray Iron: 0.5# to 75#, Ductile Iron: 0.5#
to 60#
Core Room
- Two Gaylord 19VSTB coldbox machines-core
box sizes to 19"x16"
- OMCO - MS-1 Super Bowl Mixer with capacity
up to 3 tons sand per hour
- One Redford CB22 cold box machine-corebox
size up to 22" x 22"
- Two Redford shell machines-corebox size
up to 14" x 14" or 16" x 16"
- One double-end Harrison shell machine-corebox
size up to 18" x 18"
- Oil sand core blowers and ovens
Cleaning Room
- Didion MD 80 Rotary Shakeout Drum
- One 14-cu.ft. Wheelabrator tumblast
- Four variable-speed snag grinders
- One Ransburg electro-static point spray
booth
- One Wheelabrator spinner hanger cabinet
blast
- One 6-cu.ft. Casting Tumbler
Heat Treating
- All heat treatment is performed by approved
commercial facilities.
Finishing and Machining
- All machining is performed to customer
specifications by approved commercial facilities.
- Customer specified coatings are applied
using Ransburg electrostatic painting equipment
Laboratory Testing
We use microscopic inspections, gas discharge spectroscopy chemical
analysis, Brinell hardness, x-ray, sand testing, liquid dye
penetrant, Ultrasonic, and other techniques to ensure customers
receive quality products.
- Chemical Analysis
- Multi-stationed Thermal Analysis equipment for precise control
of base Iron chemistries
- Spectrometer, LECO GDS 500A - 16 Elements - capable of analyzing
all forms of ductile iron, gray iron, steel, and other raw
materials
- Metallurgical
- Fully equipped metallurgical laboratory
- Sand Laboratories
- Hartley Controls Automatic Moisture/Bond Determinator Control
System
- Complete green sand property testing equipment
- Engineering & Technology
- CAD drawings may be provided by customer using AutoCAD,
Solidworks, eDrawings, JEDMICS and transmitted via the internet
for prompt analysis
- Bar coding capabilities provided as a customer service and
for internal inventory and shipping control
- Inspection & Testing Equipment
- Brinell Hardness testing with high resolution automated
hardness measurement.
- Ultrasonic non-destructive testing equipment
- Layout
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