Re: Investment Casting

From: Kai Uwe Koch (kuk@IPA.FhG.de)
Date: Fri Jun 19 1998 - 23:46:17 EEST


On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Marshall Burns wrote:

> Kai Uwe Koch wrote:
>
> > here are two addresses of companies located in Germany for small
> > vacuum-casting equipment:
>
> That's not the same thing. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I
> understand vacuum casting to typically work in polyurethane, whereas
> investment casting is for metals.
>
Hello,

they also cast metal alloys in their equipment. They use the vacuum to
fill the from better.

Regards

Kai

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