sand-castv.
Founding.
transitive. To make (a casting) by pouring molten metal into a sand mould.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > found or cast (object) > by specific method
transfounda1649
to burn on1888
die-cast1909
slush-cast1934
sand-cast1949
slipform1968
1949 C. J. Smithells Metals Ref. Bk. 596 Nearly all alloys can be sand cast, including relatively hot short materials.
1952 R. L. Wood & D. Von Ludwig Investm. Castings for Engineers xvii. 371 The preference for location of bosses in parts which are to be sand cast is on internal surfaces rather than external ones.
Derivatives
ˈsand-cast adj.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [adjective] > cast
yotenOE
welledc1300
yetc1429
casten1493
cast1535
molten1535
well-metalled1644
sand-cast1934
pressure-cast1973
1934 Jrnl. Inst. Metals 54 103 A sand-cast ingot.
1981 Pop. Hot Rodding Feb. 22/1 The only engine components that should be changed are the pistons, and only if they are of sand-cast manufacture.
ˈsand casting n. (a) an object cast in a sand mould; (b) the process of casting in a sand mould.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > founding or casting > types of
iron founding1793
bronze founding1869
chill-casting1879
die-casting1911
core-casting1928
slush casting1930
sand casting1939
gravity die-casting1940
investment casting1946
slipforming1968
pressure casting1973
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > metal in specific state or form > [noun] > cast metal
casting1788
foundry1890
pressure die-casting1919
pressure casting1922
sand casting1939
1939 Light Metals II. 361 (heading) The production of aluminium-alloy sand castings.
1949 C. J. Smithells Metals Ref. Bk. 596 Sand casting offers the widest scope of all the casting processes.
1949 C. J. Smithells Metals Ref. Bk. 596 In weight, sand castings range from less than an ounce up to more than 100 tons.
1960 Metallurgia LXI. 65/2 Although there are many methods of producing castings in aluminium alloys, only three are of major importance, namely sand casting, gravity die casting, and pressure die casting.
1964 S. Crawford Basic Engin. Processes (1969) xi. 246 Gravity die castings are generally superior in structure and strength to both sand castings and pressure die castings.
1967 A. H. Cottrell Introd. Metall. xiii. 184 In sand casting a wooden pattern of the required shape, slightly enlarged to allow for shrinkage of the casting, is firmly packed in sand in a moulding box... A green sand casting is made in sand bonded with clay.
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