If you are looking for technical issues related to lost foam casting, design points, or how to apply them on castings, then the following is exactly what you want to see. From the choice of materials to the production of white molds, the process is ultimately.

First of all, about the white mold

In the production of lost foam casting, in addition to those who have a white mold mechanized production foundry, it is a very common production process to use a bonded white mold to enter the lost mold mold in the production of white mold. In production, there are many precautions that require special attention.

1. Selection of materials such as EPS and STMMA.
The quality of the material directly affects the quality of the white mold. Poor quality materials will cause serious carbonation in the production of castings and directly increase the rate of scrap. Poor quality materials, gasification rate during gasification, air pollution is also worse than good quality materials. The gasification speed of the mold and the amount of gas generated will affect the operation of pumping negative pressure. Air pollution directly affects the environmental assessment of foundry companies. These chain reactions are combined and often become unaffordable costs for lost foam foundries.
Therefore, in the selection of materials, we must pay great attention. It is necessary to visit the problem of carbon increase caused by the white mold, and also to avoid the problem of slow gasification of the white mold.

2. In the production of lost foam molds, the mold stress problem should be fully considered.
The mold stress is not only the structural stress of the white mold itself but also the stress generated during the bonding process. There is also an increase in coating stress after brushing the coating. The heat generated during the mold drying process affects the stress.
Solving the problem of mold stress is the primary condition for ensuring the accuracy of lost foam castings.

3, the choice of white mold adhesive
White mold adhesive is an important material for hand-splicing lost molds. It is also the most easily overlooked material in production. Qualified adhesive can not only ensure the bonding of the module, but also reduce the amount of water and reduce the excessive water molecules during casting, thus affecting the quality of the casting.

Five design points of the lost mold

The key to the success of the lost mold design is to understand the importance of close cooperation between the casting manufacturer, the user and the mold designer. The mold designer first meets the requirements of the mold and the needs of the casting factory, and secondly meets the requirements of mold manufacturing and mold forming.

1, casting holes
In other types of casting methods, the casting holes can be obtained by sand cores or by machining (eg drilling). For each casting, whether the casting holes have their corresponding characteristics, but in general, the casting holes The cost of subsequent machining is reduced. The casting holes can be made directly on the mold by special mold design such as using pins, mandrels or other mechanisms.

2, reduce machining allowance
Standardizing the correct EPC mold design can reduce the weight of the casting by reducing the draft and machining allowance. This flexible design is not possible in many other casting methods. It is one of the greatest advantages of the EPC process.

3. Eliminate complex and expensive sand cores
The EPC process eliminates the indispensable sand core in ordinary sand casting. The fixed and movable blocks in the EPC mold form a shape similar to the sand core in the foam model, both in the shape of the sand core.

4. Comprehensive casting design
The parting surface is determined according to the shape of the casting. Generally, the parting surface of the lost foam casting is similar to other casting processes, but in some details it is slightly different: the production designer must work with the mold designer to determine the parting surface. The position of the glued surface and the desired characteristics can reduce the number of model blocks.

5. Sand core characteristics
For castings with grooves, internal cavities, connecting channels or other holes, sand cores are required for other casting methods: in EPC processes, they can be solved by using live blocks or by gluing together the block models.

Process flow

In the lost foam casting process, the whole process includes seven links, each of which has a great influence on the quality of the lost foam casting. Of course, the casting process is also a vital part of the entire lost foam casting process. Precautions for the casting process, strict control of each detail in the casting process is the key to producing high quality lost foam castings.

The casting process of lost foam casting is a process in which the molten steel is filled and the vaporization of the foam mold disappears. The whole process needs to pay attention to:
(1) The runner should be filled with molten steel from beginning to end. If it is not full, due to the limited strength of the coating layer, the sand collapse and the phenomenon of air intake are easy to occur, resulting in casting defects.
(2) When casting molten steel, be sure to grasp it to ensure stable, accurate and fast. Instantly fill the sprue cup and do it quickly and continuously, and the ton of molten steel is about a minute or so. If the molten steel in the same box castings will suck in the air, it may cause sand-slipping phenomenon or increase the porosity of the casting, resulting in the scrapping of the casting.
(3) Lost foam casting is closed with a negative pressure and must be closed below the pouring cup. The molten steel enters the molding die, and it begins to liquefy and burn, and the gasification disappears. The front end of the molten steel forms a temporary cavity at a short distance, so the speed at which the molten steel is filled is almost the same as the speed at which the foam model disappears. In order to prevent the high temperature radiation of molten steel from melting other models in the same tank, the runner is appropriately farther away from the casting model. The position of the sprue is selected from the lowest position of the full box casting. When pouring, pay attention to adjusting and controlling the vacuum of vacuum in a certain range. After pouring, keep it under a certain negative pressure for a period of time. The negative pressure stops and the molten steel condenses out of the box.

The surface strengthening and modification technology of the forging die can design the surface of the die and the substrate as a system, and comprehensively utilize the surface strengthening modification technology and the coating technology to make the surface itself difficult to obtain and hopefully have specific performance. . The treatment technology that uses modern technology to change the surface, subsurface composition, structure and properties of the forged mold is called surface modification technology, and mainly includes the following ten categories:

Electrochemical transformation
The technique of forming an oxide film on the surface of a part in an electrolyte solution and an external current is called an electrochemical modification technique. Electrochemical conversion modification techniques are also often referred to as anodizing or anodizing in engineering. Recently, a major exhibition of electrochemical conversion technology is micro-arc plasma anodization, which can significantly improve the surface hardness or form a new color decorative film layer, which has a good application in the mold industry.

2. Surface formation strengthening
Using blasting, extrusion, laser shock, rolling, ultrasonic shock, vibration shock, high pressure jet and other processes to make the surface layer of the material elastically deformed, introducing residual compressive stress and generating changes in microstructure, thereby improving The material’s resistance to fatigue and corrosion resistance enhances the stability and durability of the part.

3. Surface phase transformation strengthening
The surface of the material is rapidly heated by electron beam, laser beam, etc., so that the surface and subsurface form a new phase change region and surface strengthening amount, thereby obtaining a special performance surface layer having a fine structure and a strengthening phase.

4. Ion implantation
The ions separated by the vacuum system are accelerated at a high voltage and directly injected into the surface of the material to form a very thin ion implantation layer, which changes the composition and structure of the surface of the material and improves the surface properties of the material.

5. Organic and inorganic coating technology
Organic coating technology mainly refers to the use of coatings (paints, paints, pigments, thinners) to give special surface protection, decoration and flame retardant, temperature indication and other functions.
Inorganic coating techniques are the formation of inorganic coatings or surface films on metal surfaces. The inorganic coating or surface film has a specific chemical composition, structure and morphology that impart new properties or functions to the substrate and coating system.

6. Surface alloying (diffusion)
Metal or non-metal is deposited on the surface of the base material, and penetrates into the surface of the base material by diffusion to change the chemical composition and phase structure of the surface of the material to improve the surface properties of the material.

7. Chemical conversion
The metal parts are placed in a certain chemical solution medium to form a film of a passive compound on the surface to improve the surface properties of the material. The passive compound film commonly used in engineering mainly includes chromate passivation film, phosphate passivation film, oxalate passivation film, and bluing on the surface of steel parts. In addition, in engineering applications, surface roughness reduction processes (polishing, polishing, rolling, etc.) and surface coloring are often attributed to surface modification processes such as chemical conversion.

8. Metal Electrochemical Deposition Technology
Metal electrochemical deposition refers to the technique of electrochemically depositing one or more layers of metal plating, alloy plating or composite plating on the surface of metal parts, also known as electroplating technology. Electroplating methods can be used to prepare a variety of coatings with different functions on the surface of metal parts.

9. Anti-rust technology
The chemical or electrochemical changes that occur when a metal acts under an environmental medium is called metal corrosion, commonly known as rust or rust. Rust-proof metal is a technology that prevents corrosion of metals during manufacturing, handling, transportation, storage, and use.

10. Hot dip coating technology
Hot dip coating technology, also known as hot-dip coating, is a process for immersing metal-plated materials in other liquid metals or alloys with lower melting points to form coatings. The hot dip coating technique is characterized by the formation of an alloy layer between the base metal and the plated metal.

First, the basic production requirements of lost foam casting technology

As a method of near-static forming of castings, lost foam casting technology has developed rapidly in recent years. In foreign countries, the lost foam casting technology has shown great vitality due to the mechanized and automated lost foam casting production lines being put into operation and the significant economic and social benefits. Although the application of lost foam casting technology in China has been slow in the past, it has developed rapidly in recent years. In particular, due to the low investment in lost foam casting equipment and short process routes, many of the original small and medium-sized foundry companies are increasingly adopting this technology. However, some companies have failed to pay attention to some operational problems, which has caused some problems in the production process, which has a great impact on the quality of castings.

1, model making
Model making is a very important part in the lost foam casting process. The selection of EPS raw materials, the processing technology of the model, the dimensional accuracy, the density of the model, and the amount of pyrolysis products during casting are the prerequisites for obtaining high-quality castings. There are several ways to make existing SME models:

(1) Cut and bonded with packaging EPS sheets.
(2) Self-made molds, commissioned by foreign factories.
(3) Self-made simple pre-forming equipment.

Using the above method to make the model, there is a widespread phenomenon that does not pay attention to the change of the density of the pattern. Especially when the model is entrusted to the outside factory, the moisture is not easy to control. When the pouring occurs, the molten iron is sprayed back from the gate or the casting has cold separation and insufficient pouring. . Therefore, in the production process, the test of the density of the model should be strengthened, and the drying time of the model should be increased. After the EPS beads are selected by the process experiment, the raw material manufacturer cannot be arbitrarily changed; when the pre-fabrication is used, the weighing tool is used to control the beads. Grain density, a method of controlling the density of beads by artificial experience; after the above method is adopted, the problem is solved.

2. Problems with vibration
Vibration compaction is one of the four key technologies for lost foam casting. The function of vibration is to make the dry sand generate dynamic flow in the flask, improve the filling and density of the dry sand, and prevent casting defects. In the dry sand vibration filling, the ideal situation is that the dry sand is in an orderly flow during the vibration process, and under the premise of ensuring that the model is not deformed, it is uniformly filled into various parts of the model, so that the sand in the sand box is obtained higher. And a more uniform packing density. The lost foam casting vibration table of small and medium-sized enterprises is mostly self-made equipment. When vibrating, the most common phenomenon is due to improper vibration operation, resulting in deformation of the pattern, cracking of the coating layer, etc., resulting in corresponding casting defects. Some shakers themselves are prone to deformation due to excessive excitation force and unbalanced polarization blocks of the same set of motors. For this reason, the excitation force, amplitude and vibration time should be adjusted mainly; for large-sized and simple-structured castings, the three-dimensional vibration of the six motors can be changed to the vertical or horizontal vibration of the two-motor; in particular, the vibration of the detecting instrument The parameters of the station are tested and adjusted to meet the design requirements.

3. There is a problem with the use of paint
In the lost foam casting process, the use of paint can improve the stiffness and strength of the pattern, so that the EPS pattern is isolated from the mold to prevent sticking sand and mold collapse; during the casting process, the sample pyrolysis product is allowed to pass through the coating in a timely and smooth manner. The coating is generally composed of a refractory material, a binder, a suspending agent, etc., and the ratio of each composition has a great influence on the performance of the coating. However, some companies are not very clear about the role of the coating composition, arbitrarily modify the coating formulation and preparation process, or continue to use the composition due to the lack of a certain composition, resulting in greatly reduced coating performance; some enterprises have problems in the pattern dip coating drying process, Sometimes in order to shorten the time, the next dip coating is carried out in the case where the first coating is not dried, resulting in insufficient drying inside the mold, and moisture is present therein; in summer, only the drying method is used, and the process is unstable, resulting in instability. Back spray or void formation during casting; coating thickness is not noticed to vary depending on the casting, the casting temperature and the change in the hot metal head.
Only by paying attention to and solving the above problems, and working hard on the details of the operation, there will be no casting defects due to the paint.

4. There is a problem with the pouring process
In the lost foam casting, in order to discharge the gas and the sample gasification residue, the sprue should have sufficient height so that the molten metal has sufficient pressure head to promote the stable and rapid filling of the metal liquid flow, and ensure the complete and clear surface of the casting. In practice, some enterprises adopt the original pouring cup for sand casting. Due to the small size, it is easy to cause the workpiece to be scrapped due to the unstable liquid flow. In order to ensure that there is enough flow to keep the pouring process flowing, and quickly establish the starting head, you can use a larger pouring cup; the sprue is made hollow to reduce the gas and back spray, and increase the pressure when starting the pouring. head.
The lost foam casting adopts negative pressure dry sand vibration modeling. When this method is used, the casting strength is much greater than the wet sand strength. The suction negative pressure method can improve the stability of the mold and timely remove the pyrolysis gasification products generated during the gasification of the pattern. However, in the production process, some factories only pay attention to the negative pressure before pouring, but the negative pressure changes are often ignored during the casting process, which causes casting defects. This problem can be well solved by taking a method of adjusting the negative pressure during the casting process according to the size of the casting and the amount of pyrolysis products.

Second, what factors should be considered when choosing a casting method?

Casting methods are commonly used for sand casting, followed by special casting methods such as metal casting, investment casting, gypsum casting, and the like. Sand casting can be divided into clay sand type, organic binder sand type, resin self-hardening sand type, lost mold and the like.

Principles of casting method selection:

1 Sand casting is preferred, mainly because sand casting has lower cost, simple production process and shorter production cycle than other casting methods. When the wet type does not meet the requirements, consider using a clay sand table dry sand type, dry sand type or other sand type. Clay wet sand castings can weigh from a few kilograms up to tens of kilograms, while clay dry castings can weigh up to tens of tons.

2 The casting method should be compatible with the production batch. Casting methods such as low-pressure casting, die-casting, and centrifugal casting are only suitable for mass production because of the high cost of equipment and molds.

3 The modeling method should be suitable for the factory conditions.
For example, it is also the production of castings such as large machine bed, generally adopting the core forming method, not making the pattern and the sand box, and assembling the core in the pit; while the other factory adopts the sand box modeling method to make the appearance. Different production conditions (including equipment, site, staff quality, etc.), production habits, and accumulated experience are different. It should be considered according to these conditions what products are suitable and what is not suitable (or not).

4 To balance the accuracy requirements and costs of castings.

 

Third, the defects and prevention in the heat treatment of the mold

1. The surface of the mold has soft spots
After the heat treatment of the mold, there are soft spots on the surface, which will affect the wear resistance of the mold and reduce the service life of the mold.
(1) Reasons for production
The mold has scale, rust and local decarburization on the surface before heat treatment. After quenching and heating, the cooling and quenching medium is improperly selected, and the impurities in the quenching medium are excessive or aged.
(2) Preventive measures
Before the heat treatment of the mold, the scale and rust should be removed. When the mold is heated during quenching, the surface of the mold should be properly protected. Vacuum furnace, salt bath furnace and protective atmosphere furnace should be used for heating. When quenching and heating, select a suitable cooling medium, and filter the long-term cooling medium frequently, or replace it regularly.

2. The mold is poorly organized before heat treatment
The final spheroidized structure of the mold is coarse and uneven, and the spheroidization is imperfect. The structure has mesh, band and chain carbides, which will cause the mold to crack after quenching, resulting in scrapping of the mold.

(1) Reasons for production
There is serious carbide segregation in the original structure of the die steel material. Poor forging process, such as forging heating temperature is too high, deformation is small, stop forging temperature is high, and the cooling speed after forging is slow, so that the forged structure is coarse and there are mesh, band and chain carbides, so that spheroidizing annealing It is difficult to eliminate. The spheroidizing annealing process is not good, such as the annealing temperature is too high or too low, the isothermal annealing time is short, etc., which may result in uneven spheroidizing annealing or poor spheroidization.

(2) Preventive measures
Generally, according to the working conditions of the mold, the production batch and the toughening performance of the material itself, try to select a good quality mold steel material. Improve the forging process or use normalizing heat treatment to eliminate the non-uniformity of the network and chain carbides and carbides in the raw materials.

High-carbon die steel with severe segregation of carbides that cannot be forged can be subjected to solution heat treatment. The correct spheroidizing annealing process specification for the forged blank can be tempered heat treatment and rapid uniform spheroidizing annealing. The furnace is properly installed to ensure the uniformity of the temperature of the mold blank in the furnace.

3. The mold produces quench cracks
The cracking of the mold after quenching is the biggest defect in the heat treatment process of the mold, which will cause the finished mold to be scrapped, causing great loss in production and economy.

(1) Reasons for the cause
There is severe network carbide segregation in the mold material. There are mechanical or cold plastic deformation stresses in the mold. Improper heat treatment (heating or cooling too fast, improper selection of quenching cooling medium, low cooling temperature, too long cooling time, etc.).

The shape of the mold is complicated, the thickness is uneven, the sharp corners and the threaded holes are used, so that the thermal stress and the structural stress are excessive. Excessive heating of the quenching heat causes overheating or overheating. After quenching, the tempering is not timely or the tempering time is insufficient. When the quenching is heated, the quenching is performed again without intermediate annealing. Heat treatment, improper grinding process. When subjected to electrical discharge machining after heat treatment, high tensile stress and microcracks are present in the hardened layer.

(2) Preventive measures
Strictly control the intrinsic quality of the mold raw materials, improve the forging and spheroidizing annealing process, eliminate the network, ribbon, and chain carbides, and improve the uniformity of the spheroidized structure. The mold after mechanical processing or after cold plastic deformation shall be subjected to stress relief annealing (>600 ° C) and then subjected to heat quenching. For molds with complex shapes, asbestos should be used to block threaded holes, and the dangerous section and thin wall should be wrapped, and graded quenching or austempering should be used.

Annealing or high temperature tempering is required for rework or refurbishment of the mold. Preheating should be adopted during quenching heating, pre-cooling measures should be taken during cooling, and suitable quenching medium should be selected. The quenching heating temperature and time should be strictly controlled to prevent overheating and over-burning of the mold.

After the mold is quenched, it should be tempered in time, the holding time should be sufficient, and the high alloy complex mold should be tempered 2-3 times. Choose the right grinding process and the right grinding wheel. Improve the mold EDM process and perform stress relief and tempering.

4. The microstructure of the mold after quenching
After the mold is quenched, the coarse structure will seriously affect the mechanical properties of the mold. When used, the mold will be broken, which will seriously affect the service life of the mold.

(1) Reasons for the cause
The mold steel is confused, and the actual steel quenching temperature is much lower than the quenching temperature of the required mold material (such as GCr15 steel as 3Cr2W8V steel). The steel was not subjected to the correct spheroidization process before quenching, and the spheroidized structure was poor. The quenching heating temperature is too high or the holding time is too long. Improper placement in the furnace and overheating in the vicinity of the electrode or heating element area. For molds with large cross-section changes, the quenching heating process parameters are not properly selected, and overheating occurs at thin sections and sharp corners.

(2) Preventive measures
Before the steel is put into storage, it should be strictly inspected to prevent the steel from being confused. Proper forging and spheroidizing annealing should be performed before the mold is quenched to ensure good spheroidization. Correctly formulate the mold quenching heating process specification and strictly control the quenching heating temperature and holding time. Regularly check and calibrate the temperature measurement instrument to ensure the normal operation of the instrument. Keep an appropriate distance from the electrode or heating element when heating in the furnace.

What is Lost foam sand casting?

The sand casting process is a casting method in which sand is used as a main material to prepare a mold. Sand casting is the most traditional casting method. Because sand casting is characterized by its own shape (not limited by the shape, size, complexity and alloy type, short production cycle and low cost), sand casting is still the most widely used casting method in casting production, especially single piece or Small batch castings!

What are the main steps of Lost foam sand casting?

The basic process of the traditional sand casting process has the following steps: sanding, molding, core making, molding, pouring, falling sand, grinding, inspection, etc.

1. In the sand mixing stage, the sand and core sand are prepared for the modeling. Generally, the sand mixer is used to put the old figure and the appropriate amount of clay to stir.

2. During the molding stage, molds and core boxes are made according to the drawings of parts. Generally, single pieces can be made of wood molds and mass production to make plastic molds or metal molds (commonly known as iron molds or steel molds), and large-scale castings can be used to make molds. Nowadays, the molds are basically made of engraving machines, so the production cycle is greatly shortened, and the molding generally takes 2 to 10 days.

3. Modeling (core making) stage: including modeling (formation cavity for forming castings with molding sand), core making (forming the internal shape of the casting), matching mold (putting the core into the cavity, and fitting the upper and lower flasks ). Modeling is a key link in casting.

4. Melting stage: According to the required metal composition, the chemical composition is distributed, and the appropriate melting furnace is used to melt the alloy material to form a qualified liquid metal liquid (including qualified components and qualified temperature). Smelting generally uses a cupola or an electric furnace (due to environmental protection requirements, the cupola is now basically banned, and the electric furnace is basically used).

5. Pouring stage: Inject the molten iron melted in the electric furnace into the finished type with a ladle. The pouring of molten iron requires attention to the speed of pouring, so that molten iron fills the entire cavity. In addition, pouring molten iron is dangerous and needs to be safe!

6. Cleaning stage: After the molten metal is solidified after pouring, take the hammer to remove the gate and shake off the sand of the casting, and then use the sand blasting machine to spray sand, so that the surface of the casting will look very clean! The casting blanks that are not strictly required can be ex-factory after inspection.

7, casting processing, for some castings with special requirements or some castings that can not meet the requirements of casting, may require simple processing. Generally, the grinding wheel or the sander is used for processing and polishing, and the burr is removed to make the casting more smooth.

8. Casting inspection, casting inspection is generally in the process of cleaning or processing, and the general failure has been found out. However, some castings have individual requirements and need to be checked again. For example, some castings require a central hole to be inserted into a 5 cm shaft, so you need to wear a 5 cm shaft for a try.

After the above eight steps, the castings are basically formed. For castings requiring high precision, machining is required, because it is not included in the casting range. With the advancement of casting technology, traditional sand casting is either improved or replaced by other casting methods. Continuous innovation is the eternal theme, which is the inherent quality and fundamental that must be possessed by the foundry!

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Solution for Lost foam sand casting pollution:

1. Energy saving and consumption reduction: Energy saving and consumption reduction in foundry production mainly exist in metal melting and heat treatment. Increasing the casting yield and yield by using a heat-insulating riser, a metal treatment agent, a ceramic filter, and an optimized production process are the biggest ways to save energy and reduce consumption.

2. Reduce dust and harmful gas emissions: Dust and harmful gas emissions mainly exist in the aspects of molding core making, pouring, unboxing sand falling, shot blasting cleaning and casting repair and cleaning. The most important material in the molding core process is the binder, which determines the investment in the production process of the casting, the scale of the production workshop, the tooling mold, the molding core equipment, the old sand recycling equipment and the cleaning equipment. However, most of the binders used in foundry are organic chemical materials, which are the main source of harmful gas emissions. It is a long-term pursuit of casting materials researchers to use inorganic binders instead of organic binders to improve the performance of organic binders and reduce the amount of binders.

3. Recycling of residual waste in the production process: Recycling of residual waste in the production process exists in the recycling of non-metallic materials except for the disposal of castings. The reuse of old sand is a major content. . At present, there are three methods for recycling silica sand, mechanical regeneration, thermal regeneration, and wet regeneration.

You can also visit the application of the lost foam casting product.

1. Common engineering materials and shrinkage rate?
ABS: 0.5% (super broken glue)

Pc: 0.5% (bulletproof glass glue)
PMMa: 0.5%: (Plexiglas)
Pe: 2% polyethylene
PS: 0.5% (polystyrene)
Pp: 2% (100% soft rubber)
PA: 2% (nylon)
PVC: 2% (polyvinyl chloride)
POM: 2% (Sai ​​Steel)
ABS+PC: 0.4%
PC+ABS: 0.5%
Engineering materials: ABS PC PE POM PMMA PP PPO PS PET

2. What are the major systems for the mold?
Pouring → ejection → cooling → forming → exhaust

3. What problems should I pay attention to during the mold design process?
(1) The wall thickness should be as uniform as possible, and the draft angle should be large enough.
(2) The transition part should be gradually and smoothly transitioned to prevent sharp corners.
(3) Gate. The flow path should be as wide and thick as possible, and the gate position should be set according to the shrinkage condensation process. If necessary, a cold well should be added.
(4) The surface of the mold should be smooth and the roughness is low (preferably 0.8)
(5) The venting holes, the slots must be sufficient to expel the air and the gases in the melt.
(6) Except for PET, the wall thickness should not be too thin, generally not less than 1mm.

4. What are the common occurrences of plastic parts?
Lack of glue → cloak → bubble → shrinkage → weld mark → black point → stripe → lift up → layering → peeling

5. Commonly used plastic mold steel?
45# S50c 718 738 718H
738H P20 2316 8407 H13
NAK80 NAK55 S136 S136H SKD61

6. What kind of material is used for high mirror polishing?
Commonly used high-hard heat-treated steel, such as: SKD61, 8407, S136

7. What are the structures of the formwork?
Panel → A plate → B plate → square iron → guide column → thimble plate → thimble fixed plate → bottom plate

8. What are the basic forms of the parting surface?
Straight → Tilt → Surface → Vertical → Arc Surface

9, how to hide each other in UG?
ctrL+B or ctrL+shift+B

10. What are the mold processing machinery and equipment?
Computer 锣→Lathe→Milling Machine→Grinding Machine→Drilling Machine

11, what is 2D, what is 3D?
The English of D is: the head of Dimension (dimension, dimension), 2D refers to the two-dimensional plane, 3D refers to the three-dimensional space, in the mold part, 2D usually refers to the plan view or CAD drawing, and 3D usually refers to the perspective view.

12. What is the default accuracy of pro/e? What is the default accuracy of UG?
The default precision of pro/e is: 0.0012MM, and the default precision of UG is: 0.0254MM.

13. What are the top four manufacturers of global formwork production?
Germany: HASCO Japan: FUTABA (double leaf) USA: DME China: LKM (龙记)

14. What is the default word height for CAD?
The default font height for CAD is: 2.5MM.

15. What is the wearing and what is the insertion?
The mating surface of the male and female molds parallel to the PL surface is called the collision surface, and the surface of the male and female molds that are not parallel to the PL surface is called the insertion surface.

16, the relationship between the strip and the wire
Both the strip and the silk are length units, the strip is Taiwanese, 1 = 0.01MM, the silk is Hong Kong, 1 silk = 0.01MM, so 1 = 1 silk.

17. What is the pillow position?
The edges of the outer shell plastic parts are often notched and used to install various types of accessories. The part of the pillow formed here is called the pillow position.

18. What is the crater?
The shape of the BOOS column root rubber reduction is reflected in the shape of the mold after the volcanic eruption is called the mold crater.

19. What is your finger?
He refers to the model, Hong Kong idioms.

20. What is the tiger’s mouth?
The tiger’s mouth is also called: the tube position, which is the part used for the limit.

21. What is ranking?
The product layout on the mold is called the ranking.

22. What is the glue position?
The cavity of the product on the mold is called: the glue position.

23, what is the bone position?
The tendons on the product are called: bone position

24. What is a column?
The column of BOSS on the product is called: column position.

25. What is a virtual position?
The gap on the mold is called: virtual position.

26. What is the deduction?
The hook used to connect the product is called: buckle.

27. What is the fire pattern?
The pattern left after EDM is called a fire pattern.

28. What PL surface?
The PL surface is also called: the parting surface and the rake surface, which refers to the part where the front mold and the rear mold are in contact when the mold is closed. Mould Daren WeChat: mujudaren

29. What is the computer?
CNC milling machine and machining center

30. What is copper work?
EDM usually uses easy-to-process copper material as the discharge electrode. It is called copper work, also called electrode. Copper work is generally divided into: rough work, rough work, young work, and young workers.

31. What is the spark position usually?
During the discharge process, the discharge gap between the copper and steel materials is called the spark position, the rough spark is generally 10 to 50, and the spark point of the young worker is generally 5 to 15.

32. What is the material level?
The thickness of plastic products is also called thick meat.

33. What is the original body?
The original body is relative to the cutting insert, the original body is a piece of steel for the processing of the billet, processed together when processing.

34. What is the weld line?
The line formed by the encounter of two plastics is called a weld line.

35. What is the jet?
The flow of plastic that forms a curved fold-like snake from the glue inlet into the cavity is called a jet flow.

36. What is LKM?
LKM refers to the dragon record mold embryo, commonly used mold embryos are: LKM, Fu Deba, Mingli, Huansheng, Changhui, Desheng.

37. What does DME mean, what does HASCO mean?
DME and LKM are standard standards, DME is American, HASCO is European.

38, what is the reverse buckle?
The part of the product in which the front and rear molds cannot be directly demolded becomes an inverted buckle.

39, what is the foolproof?
Defence is a idiom that prevents a very simple mistake and prevents a daze! For example, an insert has a hanging platform of the same size on the side of the heaven and earth. When the site is assembled, it is likely to be installed on the side of the heaven and earth, but he is hanging on the side of the insert. It is impossible to install it, and it is impossible to install it wrong. This action to prevent the occurrence of a daze and a mistake is a daze.

40, what is a beer machine?
The beer machine is a local idiom, which is the injection molding machine and molding machine we often say.

41, what is the stop?
The mouth is the pinch art line, also known as the ugly line.

42. What is a flying model?
The flying mode is the matching die or the standard model.

43. What is a light knife?
The CNC finishing motion is called a light knife, which is to process it in place on an open basis.

44, what is the open box?
The action of machining the position of the mold core on the mold blank is called an open frame.

45, what is the sun word?
The sun type is the processing font that is placed in the film and then added to the font.

46, what is the opposite?
The method of turning the mold before and after the normal mold position is reversed is called reverse.

47, what is floating?
The part that has a partial buckle with a small insert is called a floating method.

48, what is the pre-meal?
When the mold is opened, the product remains in the front mold as the pre-meal mold.

49. What is white?
When the ejection is required, the mold force is large, and the thimble is not enough, so that the product is partially broken. From the front of the product, there is obvious white for the top white, which is also called the top water nozzle.

50, what is baking.
The mark left on the surface of the manufacturing point when diving into the water is called baking.

51, what is the code?
The dowel is a clamping tool, a pad with a triangular beveled open slot.

52, what is called cut?
Overcutting refers to excessive cutting, that is, when the workpiece is machined, the parts that do not need to be processed are also processed, and overcutting is not good. Mould Daren WeChat: mujudaren

53. What is the school cup?
The front mold pops up the inner position of the mold.

54. What is gums?
Tapping. The tapping thread is called the gums.

55. When do you need to make a two-color mold?
Design a two-color mold when a product contains two different materials or different colors from the same material.

56. What is the mold design process of the factory?
Customer provides product map → analysis product → confirm plastic variety → confirm mold material → transfer engineering drawing → take shrinking water as mirror phase → perfect group drawing → order mold embryo → order mold material → draft mode → 3D parting → determine flow path /Gate method→Structure design with reference to the layout diagram→Demolition and inserting→Correct 3D→Project drawing “including: mold core/insert/mold/distribution”→Do BOM → proofreading

57. How many ways to demould?
Shun and strong off the mold Daren WeChat: mujudaren

58. What are the feeding methods?
Directly enter the glue → lap into the glue → side glue → ring travel glue → sheet into the glue → latent → point into the glue → horn type into the glue → fan into the glue.

59. What are the forms of the runner?
There are circular flow paths → semi-circular flow paths → T-shaped flow paths → regular hexagonal flow paths.

60, the mold designer’s standing manual and books?
Steel books, plastic books, mold standard parts books.

61. What is the role of the spring?
Resilience occurs when external use occurs

62. Why should the mold be drafted?
Prevents the product from being pulled when it is released from the mold

63. What is the role of the screw and the length of the fit?
Mainly tightening and fixing, the matching length is generally 1.5 to 2 times the diameter of the screw.

64. How big is the slope of the slider? How much is the slope of the inclined guide column?

The slope of the slider is generally taken as: 20 degrees, and the inclination of the inclined guide column is generally 18 degrees.

65, the role of cold wells?
The function of the cold well is to store a small portion of the lower temperature plastic material that first enters the mold.

66, the role of the positioning ring?
The purpose of the positioning ring is to ensure that the correct relative position between the mold and the injection machine is maintained.

67. The relative position of the match?
The cooperation is mainly divided into three categories: clearance coordination, transition coordination, and interference fit.

68. What is the role of the insert?
Convenient processing, prevent carbon deposits, facilitate polishing, save materials, help exhaust, facilitate replacement, and reduce processing machines.

69. What are the indicators of hardness?
Hardness indicates the ability of a material to resist the intrusion of a hard object into its surface. Commonly used hardness indexes are Brinell hardness, Rockwell hardness and Vickers hardness.

70. Can the surface be drafted? Can the group be drafted? Can the quilt be replaced?
The surface cannot be drafted, the surface can be drafted, and the quilt can be replaced.

71. What is the difference between the first corner method and the third angle method?
1. When placing an object in the first quadrant, the method of projecting the view by the relationship of {viewpoint} (observer) → (object) → (projection surface) is called the first corner method, also known as the first quadrant. law.
2. Where the object is placed in the third quadrant, the drawing method is projected by the {viewpoint} (observer)→(projection surface)→(object) relationship, which is called the third angle method, also known as the third quadrant method. .
Note: The difference between the first corner painting and the third corner painting is the article placed by the view.
The first corner drawing: the left view is placed on the right, the right view is placed on the left, the upper view is placed below, and so on…
The third triangle: the left view is placed on the left, the right view is placed on the right, the upper view is placed on the top, and so on… Mold Daren WeChat: mujudaren

72. What are the ways to transport water?
Commonly used for transporting water are: straight-through, wraparound, water tower, and spiral.

73. What are the basic principles of the three views?
The basic principle of the three views is: long alignment, high level and width.

74. What are the types of injection machines?
According to the shape; vertical, horizontal. According to the injection quantity, it is divided into: ultra-small injection molding machine, small injection molding machine, medium-sized injection molding machine, large injection molding machine, and super large injection molding machine. That is, the injection volume ranges from a few milligrams to several tens of kilograms, and is divided into several to several thousand tons according to the clamping force.

75. What is the relationship between clamping force and modulus?
The clamping force of the injection molding machine is greater than the clamping force, otherwise the mold will open the pressure inside the mold.

76. What are the positioning methods of the male and female models?
There are two types of positioning methods for the front and rear modes: one is: template positioning, and the other is: mold positioning.

77. What is the appropriate wall thickness for commonly used plastics?
The suitable wall thickness of ABS is: 1.8-3mm, the suitable wall thickness of PC is: 2-3.5mm, the suitable wall thickness of POM is: 1.5-2.5mm, and the suitable wall thickness of NoryL is: 2-3.5mm

78, what is the overflow value?
The overflow value refers to the value of the plastic product that will overflow under the gap (that is, the running edge). The overflow value of ABS is 0.04mm, and the overflow value of pc is 0.06mm. The edge value is: 0.015mm, the suitable wall thickness of POM is: 0.04mm, the overflow value of PBT+15%GR is 0.03mm, the overflow value of PBT+30% is: 002mm, and the overflow value of PMMA is: 0.065mm, the overflow value of PVC is 0.07mm, the overflow value of AS is 0.05mm, the overflow value of ps is 0.05mm, the overflow value of pp is 0.03mm, and the overflow value of PE is: 0.02mm.

79. How big is the standard frame?
Commonly used frames are: A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A0 frame size is: 1189mx841m, A1 frame size is: 841mx594mm, A2 frame size is: 594mmx420mm, A3 frame The size of the frame is 420mmx297mm, and the size of the A4 frame is 297mmx210mm.

80. Planning for mold size?
Each company’s planning mold size standards are different, but the common standards are divided as follows: 15-30 series mold embryos are listed as small molds, 30-50 series mold cores are listed as medium molds, 50 or more The mold of the mold blank is listed as a large mold.

81. What is elastic deformation? What is plastic deformation?
The object is under the action of external force

In mold making, we usually hear casting and forging. What is the difference between the two manufacturing processes?

One casting

Casting is a process in which a metal is smelted into a liquid that meets certain requirements, poured into a mold, and cooled, solidified, and cleaned to obtain a casting (part or blank) having a predetermined shape, size, and performance. The basic process of industry.

The blank produced by casting has low cost, and it can show its economicality for parts with complicated shapes, especially those with complex inner cavity; at the same time, it has wide adaptability and good comprehensive mechanical properties. However, materials required for casting production (such as metal, wood, fuel, modeling materials, etc.) and equipment (such as metallurgical furnaces, sand mixers, molding machines, core making machines, falling sand machines, shot blasting machines, cast iron plates, etc.) It is polluted by dust, harmful gases and noise.

1. There are many kinds of castings, which are habitually divided according to the modeling method:

1 Ordinary sand casting, including wet sand type, dry sand type and chemical hardening sand type.

2Special casting, according to the modeling material, can be divided into special castings with natural mineral sandstone as the main modeling material (such as investment casting, clay casting, casting workshop shell casting, negative pressure casting, solid casting, ceramic casting). Etc.) and special castings with metal as the main casting material (such as metal casting, pressure casting, continuous casting, low pressure casting, centrifugal casting, etc.).

2. The casting process usually includes:

1 mold (to make liquid metal into a container for solid casting) preparation, mold can be divided into sand type, metal type, ceramic type, mud type, graphite type according to the materials used; can be divided into disposable type and semi-permanent type according to the number of times of use And permanent. The pros and cons of casting preparation are the main factors affecting the quality of castings;

2 melting and casting of cast metal, cast metal (casting alloy) mainly cast iron, cast steel and cast non-ferrous alloy;

3 casting processing and inspection, casting processing includes removal of core and casting surface foreign matter, refining riser, burr and burr and other projections, as well as heat treatment, shaping, anti-rust treatment and roughing.

2. Forging

Forging is a processing method that uses a forging machine to apply pressure to a metal blank to plastically deform it to obtain a forging with certain mechanical properties, a certain shape and size, and is one of the two major components of forging.

Through forging, it can eliminate the as-cast looseness and weld hole of the metal, and the mechanical properties of the forging are generally superior to those of the same material. For important parts with high load and severe working conditions in machinery, forgings are often used except for rolled sheets, profiles or welded parts that are simple in shape.

1. Forging according to the forming method

1 open forging (free forging)

The impact force or pressure is used to deform the metal between the upper and lower stellite irons (anvil) to obtain the required forgings, mainly hand forging and mechanical forging.

2 closed mode forging

The metal blank is subjected to compression deformation in a forging die having a certain shape to obtain a forged piece, which can be classified into die forging, cold heading, rotary forging, extrusion, and the like.

2. According to the deformation temperature

Forging can be further divided into hot forging (processing temperature is higher than the recrystallization temperature of the blank metal), warm forging (below the recrystallization temperature) and cold forging (normal temperature).

The forging materials are mainly carbon steel and alloy steel of various compositions, followed by aluminum, magnesium, titanium, copper and the like and alloys thereof. The raw state of the material is bar, ingot, metal powder and liquid metal. The ratio of the cross-sectional area of ​​the metal before deformation to the area of ​​the die after deformation is called the forging ratio. Proper selection of forging ratios has a lot to do with improving product quality and reducing costs.

Casting mold means that in order to obtain the structural shape of the part, the structural shape of the part is made in advance with other easily formed materials, and then the mold is placed in the sand type, so that a cavity having the same structural size as the part is formed in the sand type. A fluid liquid is then poured into the cavity, and the liquid is cooled and solidified to form a part identical to the shape of the mold.

According to different working conditions, it is mainly divided into the following types of processes:

1. Ordinary die forging:

Ordinary die forging is to place a heated or unheated metal blank in a mold cavity. Under the influence of impact or pressure. The geometry of the metal is varied to obtain a forging that is consistent with the cavity. Ordinary die forging includes hot forging and pier forging. Pier forging can also be divided into warm piers, cold piers, and hot piers;

2, squeeze:

Extrusion is the placement of a metallic material in an extruded mold cavity. Apply strong pressure to one end. The casting mold material is deformed in a state of being accepted in three directions. Thereby flowing out of the die hole at one end. Get parts of different shapes. Classified according to the direction of motion of the punch and material. Extrusion can be divided into positive extrusion, reverse extrusion, composite extrusion, radial extrusion and the like. According to the billet temperature, it can be divided into hot extrusion, cold extrusion and warm extrusion;

3, pull:

At the time of drawing, the material was pressed in both directions and was always pulled. Formed by casting a die hole in the mold. Obtain blanks, profiles, and parts of the required shape and size. Pulling can be divided into extubation, drawing, and the like. The products obtained by drawing have higher precision and lower surface roughness, and are often used for reworking of rolled bars and tubes to improve quality;

4, stamping:

Stamping is the use of a die to deform or separate the material. Thereby obtaining a processing method of the part. Stamping can obtain parts with complex shapes, good surface quality and high precision. Casting molds have high productivity and low cost, and stamping can be mainly divided into two types: forming process and separation process. The separation process includes punching, blanking, trimming, trimming, etc.; the forming process includes drawing, bending, expanding, tumbling, and schooling;

5, die casting:

Die casting is a process in which a molten metal is injected at a high pressure into a cavity of a die-casting mold at a high pressure and solidified under pressure to form a casting;

6, plastic molding:

The plastic molding is under the action of pressure, and the casting mold molds the powder or the heavier plastic in the mold to obtain a plastic product of a desired shape and size. Plastic molding can be divided into extrusion molding, compression molding, injection molding and other processes.

Lost foam casting has many kinds of processing methods in China. Different lost foam casting methods have different requirements on coating properties. The casting system and casting body have different requirements on the properties of the material. The gas permeability of the lost foam coating is accurate. It should be permeability, and the permeability of the medium temperature zone has practical value. In the selection of aggregates, the higher the refractoriness, the better. In order to ensure the good permeability of the sand, there are new requirements for the stripping property of the coating. The method of making and using the paint has an effect on the workability and process performance of the paint.

1, the role of lost foam coating

The function of the lost foam coating is to support and protect the foam model, prevent the liquid metal from infiltrating into the sand and sand, absorb the cracked product and allow the cracked gas to pass through the coating, keep the cavity air gap formed by the foam model cracking intact, and hold the liquid Metal heat does not dissipate quickly. Therefore, the use of the lost foam coating can reduce the surface roughness of the casting, ensure the accuracy of the casting, reduce or prevent the casting sand, sand holes, pores, metal penetration, cold insulation, pouring, carbon deposition and other defects. Therefore, the lost foam coating should have sufficient refractoriness, certain mechanical strength, proper thermal and thermal conductivity, proper gas permeability and ability to absorb liquid cracking products, smooth surface, sufficient coating performance, and no foam model. A chemical reaction occurs.

2, the performance of the lost foam coating

The properties of lost foam coatings include many indicators: strength, gas permeability, refractoriness, thermal insulation, rapid cooling resistance, rapid heat, wettability, thixotropy, varnishing, dripping, suspension, etc. These performance indicators can be Classified into two categories: work performance and process performance

Coating strength, gas permeability, refractoriness, thermal insulation, and resistance to rapid cooling and heat are all workability. The most important of these are strength and breathability. Lost foam coatings require high strength and high gas permeability, which is different from other foundry coatings.

The coating properties, dripping properties and suspension properties of the coatings are process properties. In order to reduce the cost of foam casting, water-based coatings are often used. Therefore, water-based coatings and organic foam moldings do not wet, and it is necessary to improve the coating properties of coatings, which is a major process performance of lost foam coatings. Another major process performance is the dripping of the coating. After the dipping coating, the pattern is generally suspended and dried. It is hoped that the coating can be leveled and not dripped as much as possible to ensure a uniform coating of a certain thickness, making full use of the coating without polluting the environment.

3. Composition design of lost foam coating

The basic components of the coating for lost foam casting include refractory materials, carriers, binders, suspending agents, preservatives, surfactants, defoamers, and the like.

Luoyang Liu’s mold reminds you to pay attention to: (1) the selection of coatings should be considered from the aspects of coating performance, preparation operation and procurement cost; (2) the permeability of coatings with alumina as the main aggregate is relatively high; (3) Poor gas permeability makes it possible to add a certain amount of organic binder and organic binder to burn in the foot-filling process to increase the micropores of the coating, which not only increases the gas permeability, but also increases the room temperature strength of the coating.

The above is the knowledge about the lost foam coating summarized by Luoyang Liu’s mold. For more details about the lost foam coating, please contact us.