Lost Wax Casting
Select type of wax
Mrs. Pearson will cut your wax to width
Size the inside of your ring
Tools for shaping your ring
Using the Jewelry Saw
Filing the Wax
Heating tools for wax
Weigh your wax model. Wax cannot exceed 1.5 grams.
Multiply your wax weight by Ten. REMEMBER WEIGHT!!!
Cut sprue, ¼ of an inch long, weigh with wax ring
Sprue up
½ inch from top of wax model to top of flask
Measure Flask of Water
Water should be ¼ inch from top
Pour the water into the rubber bowl
Add powder until you have an island
Have fun mixing
Add powder until you have a pancake batter consistency
Vibrate bubbles out
Slowly pour the investment in; avoid pouring directly on top of the ring
Fill to the top
Vibrate your flask
Let it dry, mark your initials, period, and the weight you need in metal.
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
Overnight burnout
Reheat to 900 degrees F to cast
Wind the centrifuge 3 turns
Put metal into crucible
Put flux on metal and start heating
Get your hot flask from kiln and set into the cradle
Heat metal until liquid
Get it hot
Let it spin
Check for a full sprue
When not red quench in water
Pull metal from flask
Find the sand blaster
Don’t forget to turn on the air
Spray it off with sand
It should now be clean
Cut sprue off with the Jewelry saw
File and Sand
Buff your piece
Your piece should almost be finished
Make last minute fixes and turn it in!! Yeah, you have just completed your 1 st cast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!