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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