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Melting and Casting for Precious Metal
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Check the condition of ceramic crucible (cracks, damage) and set the ceramic crucible and melting alloy
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outlet properly.
Note) Do not forget to use the melting alloy outlet to prevent machine malfunction.
Put alloy inside of the crucible. Line up alloy ingots in order to prevent crucible breakage due to alloy
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heat expansion. Especially, in case of using used alloy, take care of alloy heat expansion.
Close and lock the chamber lid.
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Press the “Standby” button to vacuum and increase the temperature inside of the chamber.
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Check the melting condition visually from the window of lid and wait until the melting alloy become mass.
Note) Use a shaded protective glass to protect your eyes in case of high temperature.
After the melting alloy become mass, press the “Retention” button to hold the temperature.
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Unlock the chamber lid with this condition and vacuum will be automatically released wait 5 seconds to
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open the door . After the release of vacuum, place a burned-out casting ring. If the button is not at the
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center, adjust the space so that the casting ring is set properly and fit the melting alloy outlet.
Note) In case sprue center is not at the center of investment ring, place sprue center to upward to utilize the casting chamber
space and close the casting chamber lid.
Lock the chamber lid and press the “Final” button so that “Casting” lamp will illuminate and “Casting”
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button will be usable.
If the chamber lid is not locked completely, cannot use the “Casting” button.
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After checking the alloy melting condition, press the “Casting” button to invert the muffle chamber
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automatically.
”Casting” lamp blinks during cooling and elapsed time of cooling is displayed in increment of 10
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seconds on the “Power” display.
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means 1 minute 40 seconds.
After required cooling time is finished, press the “Finish” button to release pressure and revert the
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muffle chamber to the original position.
If it takes 10 minutes, pressure is released and revert the muffle chamber to the original position
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automatically.
Open the chamber lid and remove the casing ring.
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