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Casting Metal

Casting metal as it old as time itself, or so it seems. Pump housings, pipe hangers, brackets, machine bases and even items as small as jewelry are all made by casting. Casting is still a practical alternative even for high tech devices.

All castings need casting and machining drawings before they can be quoted and manufactured. With the addition of 3D modeling, we have a tool to help reduce the high cost of creating castings.

Casting drawing

Casting drawings for aluminum die casting and cast iron parts such as metal pump housings, volutes, motor mounts, pipe hangers and brackets.

Die Casting

diecast-alarm-housing

Aluminum die casting projects for fire alarms and speaker enclosures and even V8 motorcycle transmissions.

Investment Casting

Production of 3D models for wax models and creation of stl files for wax printers and cnc machines

Jewelry wax models

gold ring of hearts

Jewelry wax models are making the production of wax molds a much quicker and less painstaking process. 3D Modeling software can create complicated shapes that can be reused and changed dozens of times unlike traditional hand made wax models.

Rapid Prototyping

Different types of rapid prototyping from casting on the bench to the most sophisticated machinery, This might be better as a seperate category although it is a category of casting

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    The recent 16 billion dollar purchase of F-35 stealth fighters is a triumph in buying American . While Canada needs more search and rescue planes to patrol the oceans the Canadian government decides to purchase stealth fighters. One wonders what kind of a changing role the Canadian air force has up its sleeve for these high tech seek and destroy weapons.

    Perhaps the stealth and speed will allow our pilots to sneak up on sailors before they even get shipwrecked. The pilot can launch missiles at the pesky shoals or reefs blowing them up, preventing any marine disaster from ever happening.

    Canadian Pilots flying the joint strike fighter solo over the arctic are assured that the fighters engine is more “robust” and unlikely to fail. Much like the Titanic was unsinkable. It will be cold comfort to a our pilots, reflecting on their emergency manual which said “relax, your jet engine is robust” as they eject in 50 below temperature.

    Worse, the purchase of joint strike fighters protect American jobs, not Canadian ones, as the purchase of Bombardier search and rescue planes would have. Unfortunately when the Pentagon barks, we have to pay attention. This was true in the days of the Avro Arrow and now again with the F-35 joint strike fighter.