Re: Casting Ceramics

From: ATiburon@aol.com
Date: Thu Sep 16 1999 - 05:15:02 EEST


In a message dated 99-09-13 21:24:20 EDT, judsonfam@mediaone.net writes:

<< Expect
 20-30% sintering shrinkage in cast ceramics. >>
And of course this is non-isotropic shrinkage. i.e. more shrink in Z than in
X and Y. As well as the geometry dependant shrinkage. It might take 2 or 3
iterations to get the desired results after firing. But very easy to dial in
and make another master, using RP of course.
Andy Scott
Lockheed Martin Aero Sys

For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/



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