An Example in Steel Casting    Traction Motor Rotor Disc

Approach A -- Four Gates on the Rim
Four Gates on the Rim
  • In Approach A, the four gates on the rim give a very long metal flow path into all the ribs.
  • With those four rim gates, a test casting showed poor fill into the ribs with resulting rib misruns/defects.
The four gates on the rim are not the best gating design.
Go back and choose another approach.


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