Practically it is more expensive to use Lost Wax investment casting than sand casting or die-casting. Investment casting process generally used in producing small castings, but now a day large castings are also being manufactured with this type of casting. The major advantage of Lost Wax investment casting is that, it can produce complicated and most difficult casting shapes which might be impossible with die casting. Also, with investment casting we can use almost any metal for casting it. Solidification with Lost wax casting is comparatively slow which sometimes result into low mechanical properties.
Today many investment casting manufacturers uses different types of metal material
Which can be cast with investment casting, they are, steels, bronzes, alloys hastelloys and many others. With Lost Wax casting we get advantage of close tolerances and thus requirement for further machining is eliminated.
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