AFS NEWS AFS, Industry Support Local High
School Metalcasting Program When AFS learned the high school located in the town
of its Schaumburg, Ill., headquarters ran a school foundry, they pooled together resources to support the facility. Last spring, representatives from AFS began meeting with organizers at Schaumburg High School to see how it could help sustain metalcasting within the school’s industrial curriculum. As a result, the high school has received donations of 300 lbs. of aluminum from AFS Corporate Member Manufacturer’s Brass and Alumi- num, Blue Island, Ill., and sand donated by the AFS corporate office to be used in the high school metalcast- ing facility. This November, students will be given a demonstration of the portable Foundry-in-a-Box, as well as hear presentations on the capabilities, career opportu- nities and global reach of the metalcasting industry.
Investment Casting Committee Examining Research Proposals
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Te AFS 4L Investment Casting Committee is consider-
ing several research subjects to support in the coming year in an effort to promote practical research that can be directly applied to metalcasting facilities. In its meeting on Aug. 7 at Precision Propeller Industries
Inc., Indianapolis, the committee reviewed a proposal on a shell reclamation project, as well as identified solidification modeling, zircon and direct patterns as research topics to explore. An ad hoc committee has been set up to put together a panel on solidification modeling specifically for investment casting for the next AFS Metalcasting Congress. Funding for projects has not yet been allocated as the
committee continues to hear proposals, but at the Aug. 7 meeting, AFS Vice President of Technical Services Tom Prucha reviewed AFS research funding and the process for applying for funding. Te committee also toured Precision Propeller Industries
and heard a presentation from Precision Propeller Industries intern Batuhan Ak called “Method for Acquiring a Heat Transfer Model in a Fused Silica Shell.” For more information on the AFS 4L Committee, contact
Katie Matticks, technical and information services coordina- tor at
kmatticks@afsinc.org.
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