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Die Casting Tooling: The Basics – For starters, die casting tooling is a general term that may also be known as die casting tooling, die casting dies, insert dies, die casting molds or simply dies. The main function of die casting tooling is to serve as the holding chamber where the molten material is poured through. This ensures that the molten material actually takes the shape of its holding chamber, no matter how intricate or simple the design(s) may be. However, a good die should also afford the easiest means to actually cool down the molten material quickly and to finally remove the pieces from the holding chamber without much effort. Usually, the pieces that come from the die would need to be “trimmed” to rid of excess materials.

Although the tools behind the creation of dies from molten material have been improved dramatically by time and technology, the principles from the 1830 Elisha Root machines (the very first ones) still applies. Usually, there are two sides of die casting molds, with one part remaining stable, and the other one easily detachable so that the hardened material within can easily be popped out. These are held together while molten material is poured through an opening on one side of the die. This process can be repeated several times as long as the die remains intact or until the design of the die is still needed.

These days, the process of melting the needed alloys have become easier and faster. It is also now more economical to process larger volumes of materials that ever before. This is mainly due to the fact that machines are doing most of the “heavy lifting” – from melting ores, combining alloys, to pouring the molten material to the die, etc.

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Die Casting Tooling 101: Cavities, Mold Halves And Clamping Pressure. Die casting tooling may seem innocuous, but this is an integral part of any die casting production. Die casting tooling may also be referred to as die casting molds or die casting dies. In many instances, these are referred to simply as dies or molds. As such, there are 4 types of cavities, depending upon the pieces that are to be made and the sophistication of the machines carrying out the production. These cavities range from the singe cavity die (single, solid component); the multiple cavity die (several similar pieces can be made at the same time using on die); unit dies (dissimilar pieces are processed that usually fit into one workable component); and the combination die or combo die (where the die works with most or all of the other aforementioned functions.) Most assembly line production these days utilizes combo dies.

Die Cast Tooling Dies have two halves: the cover half which remains constant all throughout the processing stage; and the ejector half. The ejector half is not only detachable, but this also contains the spruce holes, the inlets and the runners that are necessary in the construction of very sophisticated pieces.

During processing, the machine usually locks the dies by automatic hydraulic pressure. This clamping pressure is governed by two factors namely: the pressure required for the machine to “force” the molten material within the die cavity and the total projected surface area of the pieces that are supposed to be cast. The former depends on the actual machine being used in the production (hot chamber or cold chamber). The latter depends on the measurement of the die parting line or the part where the two halves of the die actually meets.

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