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Page 1: Cooling Egg - Investment Casting
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Part 1

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Part 2

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Benchmark

Complex Nozzle

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Gyroid

Vibrating Horn

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Conformal Cooling Egg

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Swirling Manifold

Straight Turbine

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Impeller

Turbo Housing

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• No tooling

• No wax room labor – benefits

• No wax press or wax costs

• No pattern etching

• No extreme care applying 1st coat

• No extended dry time – deep detail

• No Autoclave

• No wax reclamation cost

• No flash fire or burnout smoke

• Ability of inspect shell integrity and deep cores prior to cast

• Ability to control shell thickness in design stage (chill or insulate)

• Faster dip room throughput

• Lighter shells – no wax weight

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Build Box: 7.68” X 7.56” X 11.81”

Admaflex 300

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Admaflex 300

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Build Setup

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P.I.C.S. Printing

Layer Size is 100µm

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Part CAD

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View of interior vanes

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Assembly of Fuel Nozzle using Conventional

Methods

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P.I.C.S. Design

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Printed Part

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Pattern Cleaning

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Fish Tank Debinding

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Sintering

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Cluster

If the PICS included the sprue, cluster through dewax would not take place.

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1st Dip

If dipped conventionally, it would take several days by highly trained personnel to get the inner passageway. That being said, there still would be no way of knowing the integrity of the inner passageway.

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2nd Dip

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Tie and 3rd Dip

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Seal

Printed Ceramic Trees take 1 day to dip.

Traditional trees take 6 days.

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Dewax

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Casting Stainless Steel

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Knockoff

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Casting Results

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AFS Casting Competition 2020 Award

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OUR GOAL

REVOLUTIONIZE THE CENTURIES OLD INVESTMENT CASTING PROCESS