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A Design Study in Centrifugal Steel Castings - Accumulator Cylinder                                  

The Centrifugal Casting Process 

The centrifugal casting process has 5 steps--

1.   Preheat the steel mold and coat the mold interior with the refractory ceramic coating (applied as a spray slurry).

2.  Melt the metal in the furnace. 

3.  Rotate the mold, pour the metal, and spin the mold until the casting solidifies. 

4.  Remove the casting from the mold after solidification.

5.  Clean, heat-treat and machine the finished casting.


 Metal Pouring into a Horizontal Mold


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