The Advantages of Cast Aluminum Parts for Music over Plastic Parts. For serious musicians and the musical professionals in the music industry, having instruments that last longer, that sound extraordinarily good, and that are strong and sturdy is very important. Guitar amplifiers, for example, should be able to produce sound as clearly and stable as they can, which is why many manufacturers of amplifiers are now going for aluminum casting for parts. Aluminum castings are normally sturdier and are able to produce sound better than plastic, plus it is easier to shape and quick to produce in numbers. Though plastic is cheaper when it comes to production costs, aluminum casting parts for music last longer, can be shaped into all kinds of complex shapes to make it fit and function better, and it isn’t expensive as well.

But because sound and how guitar amplifiers produce the kind of music certain musicians are after are some of the top priorities when choosing guitar amps, there is still the want for vacuum tube amps despite their heavy weight and constant tuning and annual maintenance. Guitarists for genres such as the blues and rock prefer the sound produced by these vacuum tube guitar amps, but thanks to the advancements in technology even today’s guitar amplifiers can emulate sound that of classic guitars almost perfectly.

Kinetic Die Casting Company wishes to express our hope that your Christmas 2009 is a merry one. We are pleased that we were able to serve you and your company with splendid die casting parts and tooling. Many of our customers are pleased with us for the following reasons:

• Kinetic Die Casting Company produces parts quickly. Many times our delivery is shorter than a week for completed parts.
• Kinetic Die Casting Company produces great quality parts. Our quality is the highest available from any die casting company.
• Kinetic Die Casting Company has diecasting tooling holders and mold bases for other die casting tooling. We frequently mount insert tools in one of our mold bases at no charge to produce parts for our customers.

Merry Christmas from Kinetic Die Casting Company

Pressure Die Casting Aluminum Audio Speaker Parts vs Extrusions. Audio Speakers and other sound-related components don’t live without going through maintenance and parts replacement. Eventually, after months or years of use, parts need to be replaced with newer ones to continue its lifespan. Many of today’s consumers would turn to die casting to be able to get parts instead of buying a new component every time a part of the system starts malfunctioning, and one of the processes used to create speaker parts is extrusions. Extrusion, if you look it up over the net, is basically a process used to create objects (in this case, parts) of a fixed cross-sectional body. The top advantages of using extrusions are being able to create complex cross-sections and being able to work with materials that are normally brittle and that can easily break.

But because of the limitations involved in extrusions when it comes to shaping and the time spent to produce the parts, manufacturers are now turning to pressure die casting using aluminum as the main alloy. As compared to extrusions, die casting with aluminum makes production faster, allows more net shape, and all the features of the part, from top to bottom, side to side, can be done in one operation alone.

Pressure Die Casting Aluminum Lighting Parts vs Gravity Casting. There are many processes used to create parts for different things. Let’s take lighting fixtures for example. Everywhere you go, whether it is a room in your house or a mall, you’ll find all kinds of lighting fixtures inside and outside of the building. Now, knowing that nothing in this world is perfect, lighting fixtures can get damaged and may be in need of new parts to keep it functioning. To be able to do this, parts are made through certain processes known as die casting. Die casting basically refers to the process of creating parts, housings, and the like by forcing molten metal through high pressure to be able to create molds. These molds help shape and create the parts needed.

What sets things apart in die casting is the material or alloy being used. The process that is also adopted makes a difference. For lighting fixtures, for example, gravity casting is one of the casting processes used to make the parts needed to keep it stable and in place. But because of the many advantages manufacturers and consumers get from aluminum die casting, such as the end-product being lightweight, cost-efficient, strong, sturdy, and shapely to fit it in closer dimensional limitations, many prefer aluminum die casting over gravity casting. What’s more, it’s quicker to produce.

Pressure Die Casting Aluminum Automotive Parts vs Sand Casting. Aluminum die casting has many advantages over other processes in making parts and housings for different things. For instance, when producing automotive parts, manufacturers would want their finished products to fit the expectations of their customers: lightweight, less expensive, long lasting, durable, strong, and the like. Aluminum Sand Casting is usually the process used to make automotive parts, but because of the long machining process plus it being limited to only certain dimensions, aluminum was opted to be more advantageous when it came to production.

Aluminum die casting basically refers to the process of producing parts through high pressure casting, forcing molten metal through such pressure to create molds that could shape and put together the parts needed to create the fixtures, hardware, and the like. In the case of automotive parts, with aluminum they’re not as heavy in weight, they require less machining, and are made with thinner walls. Pressure die casting automotive parts can also be held with dimensional limits which are much closer to each other. The biggest perk of all is the quick and easy production of these parts since aluminum die casting parts can be produced up to a hundred thousand in number in a day.