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A Step-by-Step Look At Aluminum Casting
Author: Patrick T. Tremblay
Aluminum casting begins with an idea, an idea for a new aluminum product. The person who has visualized the product, one that can be made from aluminum, must share his or her idea. The idea creator develops a sample product or a drawing, one that makes clear his or her conceptualized product.
Yet before any factory begins to make aluminum castings, the conceptualized product must be evaluated. Does it meet the quality standards recognized by the aluminum industry? Can it be manufactured using available technology? What tools and machines are needed to make the conceptualized product?
After an evaluation of the conceptualized product, industry experts might offer some suggestions. They might propose changes that would facilitate manufacture of the conceived product. They might point out ways that the proposed product could be made more functional. They might suggest changes that could lower production costs.
Before moving on to the next step, the idea creator and the evaluators put their heads together. They introduce into future plans whatever changes all see as necessary. Each of those changes is then introduced into a software program.
In the 21st Century, those who take part in the aluminum casting process rely on information obtained by using an iron mold. That mold is made through dependence on computerized numeric control (CNC). A CNC program guides the machinery that makes the iron mold.
Iron, a stable and long, lasting metal, holds the aluminum used in the first casting. Following that casting the customer examines the product obtained from the mold. If the customer approves of the sample coming from the first casting, then, full-scale aluminum casting is ready to commence.
Factory workers pour a coating into the iron mold. That coating reduces the wear on the mold. The coating prepares the mold for a long sequence of aluminum casting.
Each round in the long sequence of aluminum castings initiates with the melting of an aluminum alloy. The alloy is exposed to temperatures of 1300 degrees Fahrenheit. The alloy melts, and workers ladle the molten metal into the iron mold.
After the iron mold can hold no more liquid, the molten metal is allowed to cool. Once the metal and mold have cooled, the iron cast is removed. At that point, finishing work on the caste aluminum commences.
Sometimes, the product of an aluminum casting must undergo debarring. Sometimes it must undergo sanding or grinding. Sometimes the caste aluminum becomes the focus of plating or powder coating.
In the end, the aluminum casting serves as the key step in the formation of a usable product. It is a product that began in the mind of a free-thinking man or woman. It is a product that has the qualities industry experts viewed as fundamental to the product's function.
Because the aluminum product was caste from an iron mold, it can be re-caste again and again. The desirable features in the finished product can be enjoyed by many. Those features can be reproduced over and over, using the aluminum casting process.
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How about making your point as it relates to the virtues of Pivot bikes vs's Ad Hoc statment's about my user name. But im glad you got Jokes.
So the earth shattering innovations from Pivot are, Integrated Bottom Bracket, Oversize 7075-T6 aluminum tubing, 8 bearing DW Link, Cocalis developed suspension rates, and Direct mount Front Derailleur. All this courtesy of Pivot cycle's web site.
Integrated BB's have been around for years with Cannondale, 7075 tubing has been used by probably every manufacturer ever, The DW is limited by the weight penalty, and a tendancy to be harsh under hard braking. The Opinion that the DW is Superior, is definatley a minority opinion. As for Cocalis developed suspension rates; its all smoke in mirrors. Cocalis tells Fox shox what he needs, they send prototypes he rides them out on south mountain and decides which one he wants to spec on his bikes.
So that leaves the direct mount front derailuer as the Pivots crowning acheivment. Which doesnt sound like a horrible Idea since road bikes have been doing it for years.
- I totally agree…more than you know. Have a great day and weekend.
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The 820 is a decent first bike, but its kind of heavy due to its steel frame; it will feel better on the road. I rode on for years and it served me very well on and off road. The 3700 will be lighter because of its aluminum frame, so you may like that one better. Both are geared the same, so its a matter of which one you like best; ride them both to find out….