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Characteristics of Casting Design – AFS Video

O’Fallon Casting was pleased by a video that has been released by the American Foundry Society on their MCTV – Metalcasting Television.

Nanocomposite Aluminum Alloys

On Dec 12 2012, Vince Gimeno and Tim Hill of O’Fallon Casting, attended a meeting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the ultrasonic dispersion of nanoparticles for strengthening of cast aluminum alloys.

Investment Casting 101

O’Fallon Casting offers Investment Casting-101 classes to its customers to help educate their Engineers on the Fundamentals of Investment Casting design.

Casting Datum Points – Avoiding potential pitfalls of Datum Point selection

Castings provide a cost effect method to provide the Near Net Shape of a configuration, but critical details are inevitably machined. The machining first cut should always be from the Datum Points of the casting, and just in case something goes wrong, it is important to retain the original casting datums.

Casting Datums and Datum Points – Optimizing their selection

The selection of datum surfaces, and assignment of the datum point (also called Tool Points) locations, is a critical consideration for good casting design, so here are a few helpful tips:

Casting – Datum & Datum Point Basics

The selection of datum surfaces, and assignment of the datum point (also called Tool Points) locations, is a critical consideration for good casting design, so here are a few helpful tips:

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