Metal Castings Products Overview

Artwork Plaque

REQUIREMENT: To manufacture a plaque that was to be emboided into the pavement where the public could walk upon the piece. The plaque had to have fine details and be hard wearing.

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Hang Glider Wing Tips and Pulley Housings

REQUIREMENT: To produce pulley housing for the wing that allows the warping of the wing on a hangglider..

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Automobile Telephone Chassis

REQUIREMENT: To resolve a need for development samples and a need for rapid production build-up.

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Cassette Slide Rachet

REQUIREMENT: To produce pairs of slides in high volumes with complete
interchangeability and without any machining operations.

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Casting for Satellite TV

REQUIREMENT: The customer needed a combined cast waveguide
and PCB holder as part of the design for a very high performance
microwave receiver.

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Clamp

REQUIREMENT: To source completely assembled clamping units for
attaching PCB's to mother boards in a defence application.

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Computer Data Backup System

REQUIREMENT: To resolve a need for development samples and a need for rapid production build-up.

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Gauge Body

REQUIREMENT: To reduce costs and improve the appearance
of a unit previously made by pressing, engraving and plating before
final riveted assembly.

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Hand Held Breathaliser

REQUIREMENT: Lion Laboratories required four sturdy castings to house their new electronic breathalyser unit with high strength and electrical conductivity but with the cosmetic standard of plastic moulding.

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Light Shield

REQUIREMENT: The customer needed to reduce both cost and
weight on a medium volume component used in an instrumentation
layout in a modern aircraft.

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Regulator Valve

REQUIREMENT: Bilsom Sentry, in introducing a new range of
safety helmets with built-in breathing apparatus, were seeking
to reduce their dependence on machined and brazed assemblies.

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Roller Carrier Slide

REQUIREMENT: The customer needed to reduce the cost and to improve the wear characteristics of parts made previously as grey iron castings.
In addition, the customer sought better impact resistance. 

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Small Metal Connectors

REQUIREMENT: To achieve a fine internal finish, remove the need for fabrication, reduce machining to a minimum. reduce weight and to incorporate finely cast detail.

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Switch Gear

REQUIREMENT: To produce light-weight complex components which fit precisely together to produce the hardware for a programmable switch; thereby minimising machining and assembly costs in a high volume device.

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Twister

REQUIREMENT: To reduce costs and remove production problems associated with machining these small complex items from solid.

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