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Overview
The steel or aluminum pattern and runner are mounted on a flat steel plate, which is heated to a temperature that will cure the sand/resin mixture. The shell is stripped off and clamped against a flat or similarly moulded shell to form the mould cavity for the molten alloy, thus reproducing the pattern. For hollow components separately moulded cores are placed between the two halves of the mould before closing.