Casting Class Batesville Products

No one wants defective metal castings. Learn how to identify and prevent 6 common porosity defects! 


Surface Porosity
Reaction Porosity
Gas Hole Porosity
Oxide Inclusions
Shrinkage Porosity
Hydrogen Gas Porosity

Thank you to our special guests at Porosity Solutions: https://porositysolutions.com/


Brad Hohenstein - Porosity Solutions Founder
Ernie Coberly - Porosity Solutions Instructor

And your friends at Batesville Products: https://batesvilleproducts.com/


Monty Fullerton - Manufacturing Engineer (guest)
Tim Williams - National Sales Manager (host)
Rachel Weber - Regional Sales Consultant (moderator)
Johnathan Johnson - Regional Sales Consultant (moderator)



CHAPTERS

00:00 - 00:39 Intro

00:39 - 02:15 Welcome Guests

02:15 - 03:34 Surface Porosity

03:34 - 04:55 Reaction Porosity

04:55 - 06:52 Gas Hole Porosity

06:52 - 08:53 Oxide Inclusions

08:53 - 11:42 Shrinkage

11:42 - 16:39 Hydrogen Gas Porosity

16:39 - 17:13 Outro

Join us as we discuss 5 hot topics in the metal casting industry!  


Casting Lead Time Considerations 
Project Cost Considerations 
3D Printing Tooling 
Transforming Weldments to Castings 
Castings Found in Everyday Life  

To learn more about each Casting Source article mentioned, please visit www.castingsource.com 

Thank you to our guest speaker Shannon Wetzel, Managing Editor of the American Foundry Society's Casting Source publication.

Best tip we can give Design Engineers? 

Design for Manufacturing (DFM)!

Always keep the end goal in mind. Before you finalize your design, you want to consider the manufacturing method. Why? Each manufacturing process has different design standards. Here are the standards for aluminum permanent mold metal casting. By following these standards, your product will be the strongest and most efficiently produced it can be.



More questions? Ask our experienced engineers! They've been helping design & manufacture castings for over 40 years! 

What does it take to make a casting cherry red? Learn everything there is to know about powder coating and painting aluminum castings in this podcast!

Topics Include:


Prepping and cleaning the casting
Priming and painting
Degassing
Powder coating
Inspection & fixing defects
The future of the finishing industry

Thank you, Jerry Burchett, for sharing your 40 years of experience in the paint and powder coating industry!

40+ year metal polisher shares his secret to polishing aluminum castings!

Can you mirror buff aluminum? Zinc?

Do all parts need polished? Even if they'll be powder coated? What about chrome plated? 

Welcome to Metal Polishing 101.

Learn about polishing tools and what finishes you can achieve in this month's podcast episode.

Thank you, Danny Courter, 40+ year metal polishing veteran for joining us!

What technology is used to simulate the casting process? How does a simulation improve permanent mold design? 



A casting process simulation ensures the client builds the best tool possible. For example, an FEA can reduce casting defects by predicting flow and solidification of metal in the mold. 



Thank you Vadim Pikhovich from MAGMA for sharing your vast foundry knowledge!