Sand Casting Applications
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What are the application and casting products made from the sand casting process?
Sand casting has wide applications in automotive, aerospace, medical, printing, sanitary, home, agricultural, electrical and electronic, mining, military and machine tool industries.
The sand casting product list is as follows:
a) Automobile Industry
- Flywheels, mill rolls and cams.
- Train enclosures and road trailers.
- Pump body, casing and piston.
- Disc brake, chassis and suspensions.
- Valve bodies, crankshaft and engine cylinders.
- The gearbox of marine engines.
- Turbine blades, aircraft engines and vanes.
- Cylinder, engine blocks and cylinder heads.
- Trailer, drive train and transmission parts.
- Piston rings and engine crankcase.
- Fuel pump bodies, casing and impellers.
- Gears, gearbox housing and valve bodies.
- Connecting roads, bonnets and transmission cases.
- Power train and chassis.
b) Machine Tools
- Machine tool bed made from cast iron.
- Machine frames.
- Table and bed of machine made from cast iron.
- Rollers, gearboxes, spur gear and worm gears.
- Pulley, flanges and brackets.
- Screw nuts and bolt casting.
- Linders, oil tanks and panels.
- Printing and mining machine equipment.
- Agriculture and sugar industry machines.
- Crank rings and backplates.
c) Power Production Industry
- Hydraulic and steam turbine housing and axles.
- Cast iron pumps, volute and turbines.
- Windmills, pumps, suction heads and generation housing.
d) Sanitary, Home and Cookware Industry
- Water supply pipes, strainers and pipe plugs.
- Water jackets, fittings and large sewer pipes.
- Cookware of aluminium, oil pans and cast iron.
- Bells, furniture, doors and décor.
- Light to heavy counterweights for measurement.
- Elbows, connectors and sanitary fittings.
- Motor housing.
- Bonze sculptures, statues and ornaments.
e) Aerospace Industry
- The housing of aircraft engines, propellers, aircraft bearings and bushing.
- Impellers and intake and exhaust manifolds of aircraft engines.
f) Electrical and Electronic Industry
- Electrical equipment and hardware.
- Motor casing and covers.
Small prototype green casting is produced using single-piece patterns to large-size low-cost casting in green sand with a skeleton pattern.
Complex small casting uses a match plate pattern and loose piece pattern.
Symmetrical casting such as bells is manufactured using a sweep pattern with loam sand.
Large-size casting is possible to produce using this process that is used in various industries. I have written a separate article explaining the advantages of sand casting that engineers can read to know more about the uses of sand casting.