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Color Your Concrete Roof Tile
Color Your Concrete Roof Tile. The most important artistic part of your home is your roof. The best way to enhance the beauty is by choosing the best color to compliment your house. The most widely used color for roof tile is Terra Cotta. Because of the improvement of technology in roofing, several different types of roofing tiles are introduced to the consumers. Therefore, there are several options for you when picking your roofing tiles.
There are several different varieties of concrete roofing tile colors. There are two methods commonly used to color roof tiles—painting and color-through. Using paint, you can make the roof tiles look like wood, slate, or clay tiles. Furthermore, you can use colors like tan, brown, cream and black if you want it neutral. Using color-through, color pigment is added to the concrete mix to make tiles more durable with color. Also you can have one color or multi-color tiles to give you even more options with your concrete tiles. For instance, you can use different shades of blue or brown to make your roof more beautiful.
One must consider the climate when choosing concrete roof tile colors. The best option for cold climates is color-through. Look at the color of your home before picking out the color of your roof tiles. Roof tiles are one of the best ways to add your own flare to your home. There are endless choices when you come to concrete roofing tile colors.
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Supplementary Technical Die Casting Terms
Supplementary Technical Die Casting Terms. You must probably learn the most common technical die casting terms with your exposure with the die casting manufacturing industries. To widen your knowledge, here’s a set supplementary terms for your perusal.
Alloy
It is a substance composed of two or more metallic elements used predominantly in die casting products.
Anodize
It is a chemical process characterized by coating metals with protective oxide layer. This process is used particularly with aluminum metals.
Clamping Force
It is the actual compressive force applied to keep the die halves closed in a die casting machine.
Cold Shut
This is an undesirable feature in a die casting, usually a line on the surface of the die cast item. This is the effect when the two halves die are not properly aligned.
Creep
It is the plastic or elastic deformation of metals when held for long period and where pressure is applied in a degree that is lower than yield strength.
Creep Strength
When metals withstand a constant force over an increasing degree of temperature, such characteristic is called Creep Strength.
Die
This tool shapes the molten metal into a particular form until it hardens. It molds liquefied metallic substance until it takes the solid form. It is a matching steel block with hollow interiors and a cavity.
Die Block
It is a huge steel block forming the base for one half of the die. Other components of the die are attached to or mounted on it.
Platen
It is a large steel plate that forms a primary part of a die casting machine frame.
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General Information about Die Casting Draft Angles
General Information about Die Casting Draft Angles. Draft Angle is the sloping required in manufacturing aluminum die casting products. Because it facilitates ejection, this feature is often highly considered by aluminum die casting manufacturing companies.
Die Casting Draft Angles apply to both the pattern and the castings. Pattern Draft Angle is the considerable degree of tilt on the surface of the pattern. It allows the ejection of the casting from its mold. Casting Draft Angle on the other hand is the draft angle on the casting itself. It is the actual sloping seen on the castings.
Although the computation of draft angles is frequently generalized, the interior and the exterior surface of the die cast wall are highly considered. The draft angle recommended for the interior wall is twice as much as the external surface to facilitate ejection when the aluminum alloy harden and shrink.
In some instances, most particularly in the production of precision metals used by electronics industries, draft angle considerable varies. It must be specified in the design in order to guarantee efficient and effective performance of electronic gadgets, appliances, furniture and lighting fixtures etc. which uses these materials in their manufacturing process.
Draft Angle is also considered in designing the parting line and determining the parting line tolerance. The parting line is the point where the two halves of the casting mold meet. In most cases this line defines the internal and external surfaces of die cast parts. Minor errors in die casting applications includes errors or faulty in parting line designs.
Tons of aluminum products worldwide are made efficient just because a simple feature like draft angle was never taken for granted.
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Sources of Porosity in Die Castings
Sources of Porosity in Die Castings. The formation of bubbles in the castings results to die casting porosity. Porosity in die castings in defects caused by bubbles, often resulting from machine inefficiency, temperature variances, etc.
The following enumerates the most common sources of porosity in die castings.
Air Entrainment
Once air is trapped in the castings upon pouring of metallic substance into the die and the same air was not able to escape during solidification, a metal casting defect is expected to result from it. Both the temperature and the pressure directly affect the formation of such die casting porosity.
Blow Holes
When from a core, gas bubbles are blown into the liquefied metal, causing holes when solidified. This is also known as blisters.
Oxides
Some defects in die casting are caused by oxides. Oxide formation causes defects on the surface or in the subsurface of the die cast parts. In steel castings for example, the removal of inclusion material by blasting causes associated porosity. These are the grassy areas in steel castings.
Pinholes
Pinholes are characterized by the formation of tiny bubbles caused by less soluble gases. During solidification, soluble gases must dissolve upon combination with liquefied metal. Once insoluble gasses remain, defects such as pinholes will appear on the castings.
Shrinkage
Shrinkage normally occurs during solidification of liquid metal. An allowable degree of shrinkages is considered by die casting manufacturing companies. However when shrinkages goes beyond the allowable level forming a defective casting, this is considered a manufacturing cost. Die casting products are often deformed due to shrinkages in various forms.
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Additional Technical Die Casting Terms
Additional Technical Die Casting Terms. The pillar of modern manufacturing industries nowadays is the metal forming industries. The process of die casting aluminum metals produces tons of precision metal parts, primary products and by-products. Besides the basic terms used in die casting manufacturing procedure, it is important to know additional technical die casting terms.
Dowel Pin
It is a semi-permanent guide pin primarily used to maintain alignment between cavities in two halves die.
Eject
It is the process of pushing the hardened casting out of the die.
Gooseneck Machine
It is also known as Hot-Chamber Machine. It is mainly used with zinc, tin and lead-based alloys.
Hot Short
It is a term used to describe an die cast alloy which lacks ductility or has a tendency to become brittle at elevated temperatures. Materials of such characteristics do not have enough tensile strength to resist stresses resulting from cooling.
Intergranular Corrosion
It is a type of corrosion characterized by cracking along grain boundaries of metals or alloys upon exertion of tensile stress. Local difference in the composition common in alloy castings is often the cause of this circumstance.
Shot Blasting
It is a process of cleaning metal where a fluid blast off abrasive steel balls against the surface for a clear finish.
Shut-Off
It is a point where the surfaces of the two halves die are fitted together to stop the flow of liquefied metal between them.
Sprue
It is a hole in a die casting tooling in a hot-chamber die casting machine which is the primary entry point of molten metals towards the chamber.
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