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Wheel Molds

From Positech Corporation
 

 
Handling Description: Remove the four pieces that make up a wheel mold from the mold press and hang them on a conveyor rack so that they may be cleaned. Some of the pieces must be rotated to hang on the rack. After shot blasting, the molds are preheated and transferred back to the mold press. Problem: The part weights, and the reach-in to the press made handling difficult. The customer used special fixtures and a forklift truck to do the transfer. Rotation was accomplished by setting the mold down and rotating it by hand, before picking it up again with the forklift. In addition, the transfer back to the press was so time consuming that much of the pre-heating was lost. This resulted in numerous castings being lost while the mold was reheating again during the process.
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