Overview
A lost-wax casting from a semester-long metals class at Dallas College, made with my professor's direct help. The pour stopped short of filling the mold. I have three likely causes and no confirmed answer yet.
- Role
- Wax to pour, with the professor
- Process
- Casting
- Sketch to part
- 2 weeks
- Where
- Dallas College
- Tools
- Wax pattern
- Investment
- Bronze
- Kiln
The class
This came out of a semester-long metals class at Dallas College. The casting itself took about two weeks, and I did it with my professor's direct help.
The pour
The metal stopped short and did not fill the whole mold.
I don't know the root cause for certain. My best guesses: the metal didn't get far enough in, the geometry was too complex, or the sprues weren't wide enough to let it flow in fast enough.
I kept this one on the site anyway. Knowing when something failed, and that there is something to learn from it, matters more to me than having the perfect term for it. Filling a cavity before the material sets is the same problem injection molding deals with, which is part of why that process interests me.