Lost Wax Casting. Ring wax Mrs. Pearson will cut your wax to width.

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Lost Wax Casting

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Lost Wax Casting

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Ring wax

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Mrs.

Pearson

will cut

your wax to

width

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Size the

inside of

your ring

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Tools for shaping your

ring

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Using the Jewelry

Saw

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Filing the Wax

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Heating tools for

wax.

(SAFETY)

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Weigh your wax model. Wax cannot exceed 1.5 grams.

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Multiply your

wax weight by

Ten.

REMEMBER

WEIGHT!!!

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Cut sprue, ¼ of an inch long, weigh with wax ring

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Sprue up

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½ inch from top

of wax model to top of flask

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Mixing the Investment

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Measure Flask of Water

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Water should be ¼ inch from top

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Pour the water into the rubber

bowl

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Add powder

until you have

an island

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Have fun mixing

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Add powder until you have a pancake batter consistency

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Vibrate bubbles out

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Slowly pour the investment in; avoid pouring directly

on top of the ring

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Fill to the top

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Vibrate your flask

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Let it dry, mark your initials, period, and the weight you

need in metal.

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Leftover Investment

O Let the leftover investment dry in the bowl

O Do Not pour investment down sink

O After the investment is dry, put in garbage

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Overnight burnout

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Reheat to 900 degrees F to cast

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Wind the centrifuge 3 turns

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Put metal into crucible

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Put flux on metal and start heating

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Get your hot flask

from kiln and set into

the cradle

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Heat metal until liquid

(Your job)

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Get it hot

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Let it spin(My job)

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Check for a full sprue

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When not red quench in water

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Pull metal from flask

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Find the sand blaster

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Don’t forget to turn on the air

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Spray it off with sand

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It should now be clean

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Cut sprue off with the Jewelry

saw

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File and Sand

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Buff your piece

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Your piece should almost be finished

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Make last minute fixes and turn it in!!

Yeah, you have just completed your 1st

cast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!