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This video explains the full process of Rapid Prototyping at Prometal-RCT.

Starting from Ingate Design, Cores and Molds Printing using Prometal RCT printer, Assembly of mold package, casting and inspection of the parts.

ProMetal RCT™ printers selectively dispense micro–droplets of specially-engineered binder into paper–thin layers of foundry-grade sand. This additive process creates complex sandcasting cores & molds direct from CAD data, eliminating the need of a physical pattern to create a core or mold. The process produces extremely accurate, uniform cores and molds rapidly, reducing significantly the lead time for metal castings.

ProMetal RCT offers completes systems as well as contract services.

More information on www.prometal-rct.com

Well, specifically hair sticks, but I have no idea how to start. I worked with pewter a long time ago – my dad and I used to make little pewter soldiers using a melt-and-pour technique. We tried lost wax casting with less than stellar results.

So where can I go to learn about metalworking/metalsmithing techniques and specifically about working with titanium? Please recommend any books, websites, or even classes in the Sacramento, CA area.

Product Description
Foundry Technology brings together basic metal casting phenomena, foundry techniques and product characteristics in a single work of reference.

Peter Beeley was a foundry manager before he became a senior lecturer in metallurgy, and subsequently maintained continuous links with the castings industry and associated research activities and publications.

His book is designed to serve as a bridge between the study of the basic principles of metal founding and their application in the producing and user industries.

A particular aim of Foundry Technology is to assist engineers and engineering students in appreciating the role of castings in design and materials selection.

Orthodox and specialized casting processes, and both ferrous and non-ferrous founding are considered on a comparative basis, and the place of castings in design is critically examined and related to other products.

The revised edition takes account of the main changes in casting processes and products since the publication of the original edition in 1972. While retaining treatments of basic aspects of molding, solidification, cast structures and feeding, newer developments in modeling and rapid prototyping are reviewed, together with quality, environmental, health and other issues of growing importance.

New edition of well-known book.

Fully updated with latest technology.

Foundry Technology, Second Edition