Talk:Hollow casting

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I wrote a paper on slush casting about a year ago, which appears to be about the same topic. Not being an engineer or metalworker (I'm an Industrial Design student) I didn't want to add the paper without a lot of editing, and frankly I haven't had the time.

Nice to see this up now, but can slush casting be mentioned in the article? Off the top of my head there are a couple of things which could be used to exapnd the article, but most entries about slush casting in textbooks were only ever a few paragraphs long.

1. The other type of toy made using this technique was toy cars. 2. The rate of cooling is dependant on the shape of the mould - ie metal cools faster on external corners and will therefore form thicker wall sections at those points (I had a good example picture, but it was from a textbook). 3. What types of metals were commonly used in this form of casting? Tin and lead alloys are about as much as I can remember. I think brass may also have been used. 4. Relation to ceramic slip casting. I see a very strong relationship between the two processes - does it deserve a mention?

Kaiza96 15:13, 21 August 2007 (UTC)