Stainless Steel · Product form
Stainless Steel Castings
Who pours castings in this alloy, and can they hold my geometry and pour weight?
What it is
Parts produced by pouring molten metal into a mold. For reactive metals this requires vacuum or inert atmosphere melting and specialized mold systems, which is why the qualified supplier list is short.
- Typical dimensions
- Grams to several hundred pounds; envelope limited by furnace and mold capacity.
- Also known as
- cast parts, investment castings, precision castings, cast components
Suppliers
Grouped by what they actually are. A mill and a distributor answer different needs.
Mills and producers 5
Companies that manufacture this form. Mill direct means longer lead times and mill minimums, with full melt traceability.
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Badger Alloys, Inc. Reported10 lb to 4,000 lb
Stainless and high alloy sand castings from 10 to 4,000 lb. Badger publishes its moulding method, which most foundries do not: airset NO-BAKE, giving closer dimensional tolerance and a cleaner surface than green sand at higher cost per mould. Casting weight range 10 to 4,000 lb. No AS9100, NADCAP or military specification qualification is claimed. Defense is one of several markets served.
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Lincoln Foundry VerifiedFinished weights 0.01 lb to 100 lb
304 and 316 stainless sand castings at 0.01 to 100 lb finished weight.
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PCC Structurals Reported
Stainless investment castings alongside titanium and superalloy.
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Signicast Reportedsource
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Stainless Foundry & Engineering Reported
Commercial, pressure-retaining and NAVSEA defense castings.
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Production methods
The same form, purchased as tolling on your own material.
Investment Casting 3
Building a ceramic shell around a wax pattern, melting the wax out and pouring metal into the resulting cavity. For reactive metals the pour is done under vacuum or inert atmosphere against specially formulated shells.
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PCC Structurals Reportedsource
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Signicast Reportedsource
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Stainless Foundry & Engineering Reportedsource
Sand Casting 2
Pouring metal into a mold formed in bonded sand. The lowest tooling cost route to a casting and the only practical one for very large parts, at the cost of surface finish and dimensional tolerance.
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Badger Alloys, Inc. Reported10 lb to 4,000 lb
Airset no-bake sand casting of stainless steels and high alloys. Badger publishes its moulding method, which most foundries do not: airset NO-BAKE, giving closer dimensional tolerance and a cleaner surface than green sand at higher cost per mould. Casting weight range 10 to 4,000 lb. No AS9100, NADCAP or military specification qualification is claimed. Defense is one of several markets served.
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Lincoln Foundry VerifiedFinished weights 0.01 lb to 100 lb
Sand casting of austenitic stainless.
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