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GeorgeGaskill

September 05, 2014 05:35PM

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If you have no foundrymen amongst your membership, you need to know that you have to make allowances (intentional increases in size) to allow for shrinkage from the hot molten state to the cold solid state. You will get undersize castings if you use the direct measurements from the existing parts.

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