In Wasserglas-Feinguss: Verfahren, Legierungs- und Anwendungswissen

Wasserglas-Feinguss wird auch als Wasserglas-Feinguss bezeichnet “Wachsausschmelzguss”. It is a method of obtaining castings by coating several layers of refractory materials on the surface of the wax mold. After it hardens and dries, the wax mold is melted away to make a shell, which is then roasted and poured to obtain a casting. Since the obtained casting has high dimensional accuracy and surface finish, it is also called “investment precision casting”.

The types of alloys that can be produced by investment casting include carbon steel, legierter Stahl, heat-resistant alloy, Edelstahl, precision alloy, permanent magnetic alloy, bearing alloy, copper alloy, aluminum alloy, titanium alloy and ductile iron. The shape of investment castings is generally more complex. The minimum diameter of the hole that can be cast on the casting can reach 0.5mm, and the minimum wall thickness of the casting is 0.3mm.

In Produktion, some parts that were originally composed of several parts can be designed as integral parts by changing the structure of the parts and directly cast by investment casting to save processing time and metal material consumption, making the part structure more reasonable. The weight of investment castings is mostly a few tenths of a Newton (d.h., tens of grams to several kilograms). It is more troublesome to produce too heavy castings by investment casting, but the weight of large investment castings produced so far has reached about 800 Newtons. Solution casting is to make a model with fusible materials, and then coat the model with refractory materials. After hardening, the model is melted and discharged from the mold, thereby obtaining a casting without a parting surface. After the casting is roasted, it is poured.

Water glass investment casting process:

1) Wax mold making and pressing:

• Special molds for wax molds, Stahl, Kupfer, Aluminium, cut and made
• Wax mold pressing: paraffin, beeswax, stearic acid, rosin, usw., press the melted wax into the pressing mold, take it out after condensation, and remove the burrs to get the wax mold
• Wax mold assembly: several wax molds are welded on a direct casting rod. Beschuss: wax mold is coated with paint, hardened, dried, usw.

2）Subsequent process flow

• Dip paint (quartz powder + adhesive paste) to make the surface smooth;
• Sanding (coarse quartz sand) Zweck: thicken the shell
• Härten (Wasserglas + NH4CL SIO2) Chemical hardening
• Dewaxing: hot water or steam
• Roasting: heating to improve the shell strength
• Dewaxing and roasting
• Sand filling: gießen
• Sand filling: put the shell into the iron box, and fill it with dry sand around
• Gießen: pour while hot
• Sand removal and cleaning After cooling, destroy the shell, take out the casting, remove the gate, Grate, anneal or normalize to obtain the required mechanical properties

Steel casting processes applicable to water glass investment casting:

Kohlenstoffstahlguss
Cast steel with carbon as the main alloying element and a small amount of other elements. Cast low carbon steel contains less than 0.2 Kohlenstoff, cast medium carbon steel contains 0.2~0.5 carbon, and cast high carbon steel contains more than 0.5 Kohlenstoff. With the increase of carbon content, the strength of cast carbon steel increases and the hardness increases. Kohlenstoffstahlguss weist eine hohe Festigkeit auf, plasticity and toughness, und niedrige Kosten. Es wird in Schwermaschinen zur Herstellung schwer belastbarer Teile eingesetzt, wie zum Beispiel Walzgerüste, hydraulische Pressbasen, usw.; Es wird in Schienenfahrzeugen zur Herstellung von Teilen eingesetzt, die großen Kräften und Stößen standhalten, wie zum Beispiel Polster, Seitenrahmen, Räder und Haken.

Cast low alloy

Cast steel containing alloying elements such as manganese, Chrom, und Kupfer. The total amount of alloying elements is generally less than 5, with greater impact toughness, und kann durch Wärmebehandlung bessere mechanische Eigenschaften erhalten. Niedrig legierter Gussstahl hat eine bessere Leistung als Kohlenstoffstahl, can reduce the weight of parts and increase service life.

Spezialstahlguss
There are many varieties of alloy cast steels refined to meet special needs, usually containing one or more high-amount alloying elements to obtain certain special properties. Zum Beispiel, Stahl mit hohem Mangangehalt 11 14 manganese can resist impact wear and is mostly used for wear-resistant parts of mining machinery and engineering machinery; various stainless steels with chromium or chromium-nickel as the main alloying elements are used for parts working under corrosive or high temperature conditions above 650, wie Ventilkörper, Pumps, containers for chemical industry or turbine housings of large-capacity power stations.