Foundry Practice

At the end of the course, students should be able to: 1. ability to engage metal casting and direct same; 2. Understand safety measures; and 3. ability to make moulds.

An introductory course to foundry practice, the furnace and melting techniques, equipment and tools for ferrous and non-ferrous metal casting and principles of modelled cast products. Studio practice focuses on industrial metal casting processes, emphasizing shell mould and investment mould casting, sand casting, cores, core prints, core boxes, moulds; i.e., sand moulding; green/damp moulds, skin dry moulds, and skin dry moulds.