Silica Sol Investment Casting
The silica sol also shares the name of water glass in general, it is used by the meatal casting process as mold adhesive which is mixed with sand and several other materials. The silica sol is applied to both sand casting and investment casting technics. It is one of the most common investment casting processes. As the molding material, silica sol is able to stand temperature up to 1800℃. Similar to other investment casting processes, the silica sol investment castingprocess mainly consisted of wax injection, assembly, shell preparation, dewax, pouring, cut-off, and finished casting, etc.
Compared to the resin investment casting, the silica sol method dewaxes into the high-temperature water, and the ceramic mold is made of water glass quartz sand. The surface quality is not as good as the resin casting, but it's cheaper and a bigger-sized part could be manufactured than silica sol casting.
Application of Silica Sol Casting
Mainly the silica sol is applying to the precision casting, because of its relatively high production cost but gives out a very fine accurate dimension, nice surface finish, and very good quality result overall. One of the other advantages for silica sol is that the internal defects such as porosity, holes, shrinkage are better controlled compared to another way of casting. So when you looking for a method to produce a small part but with high accuracy, surface demand, high corrosion resistance and you don't want to waste time waiting for the casting quality in slow improved gradually, silica sol investment casting is surely on your options list.
The Basic Property of the Product Made by Silica Sol Casting:
dimension tolerance ±0.1mm, CT4~6；
surface finish Ra6.3;
wall thickness up to 1mm;
unit weight extent 0.1~100kg;
unit size limitation 0.01~0.5 meter;
degree of complexity- very complex;
machining required- less or none due to its accurate dimension;
production lead time- long;
production cost- high;
Influence Factor in Silica Sol Investment Casting
The whole casting process has more than 40 procedures, the process is complex, and there are many process factors that affect the casting quality.
There are many kinds of raw and auxiliary materials, such as silica sol, wax, zircon sand, molybdenum powder, defoamer, wetting agent, steel, rare metal, etc. According to the different mesh, there are more than 10 kinds of sols, including precision casting surface silica sol, precision casting backside silica sol, ordinary silica sol, enhanced silica sol, fast-drying silica sol, and zirconia powder. It is not suitable to control its quality, which affects the casting quality in different degrees.
The production cycle is long and there are many uncontrollable factors. In the whole process, only the shell-making process takes 3-5 days. It takes 6-8 hours to dry the surface shell of silica sol, 4-6 layers to dry the back shell of silica sol, and 8-12 hours to dry the shell without silica sol. There are too many uncontrollable factors and defects will be formed with slight deviations in the process operation.
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