Technical Articles

One of the special capabilities of the investment casting process is the production of castings with internalized features, passageways or undercuts.  O’Fallon Casting has four techniques available to produce internal detail:  mechanical tooling, soluble wax cores, pre-formed ceramic cores and imbedded pre-formed tubing.  We’ll expand here on each of these four techniques.

A common question asked by Design Engineers in concurrent engineering is whether a particular hole in a part is castable?  To answer that question requires an analysis of the four dimensional components that constitute the description of the hole: diameter, length, diametrical tolerance and locational tolerance.

O’Fallon Casting provides its customers with a better alternative and consistently legible option for the application of variable part marking information on castings:  Laser Engraved Part Marking.    This OFC technology eliminates customer complaints and rejections of castings for poor legibility of manually applied vibro-peened or ink stamped part marking.

One of the primary benefits provided by the Investment Casting process is that part detail can very often be furnished at negligible additional cost.  Engineers frequently take advantage of this “free” capability by incorporating cast lettering and marking into their part designs.