Kinetic Die Casting Blog

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

Die cast tooling is complex to price. KDC tries to match the Die Casting tool to the needs of our customers. Many times, an inexpensive insert is all that is necessary or sometimes a Class A Die Casting Mold is necessary. Our customer only needs to send us a final part design. This part design needs to indicate the most critical areas for the design. We will also need to know how many parts our customer suspects will be required from the die casting tooling. If the quantities are very great, the tool will not last and you will need to pay again for the die casting tools.

Die cast tooling comes in various forms:
1. Die Cast Tooling Inserts
2. Prototype Die Cast Tooling Inserts
3. Unit Die Tooling
4. Complete Class “A” Die Cast Die or Mold Tooling
5. Die Cast Family Mold Tooling
6. Trim Dies for Die Cast Parts

We have produced tooling for many products for our customers. To see some of those tools and see pictures of the parts, …………...READ MORE

Tooling Holders: Mold Bases for Die Casting Inserts:
Kinetic Die Casting Company has several available die casting moldbases or Mold Bases for insert tools. If your company has die casting inserts only, we will mount your die casting inserts into one our available die casting tooling holders and make your parts.
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The major die casting procedures with die casting molds at work. Die casting is a process in which many industrial products and accessories are produced. And in producing these industrial products and accessories by way of die cast molds, four major steps are considered crucial and important.

The first step is the preparation of the molds that will be used in the process. The molds in question will be sprayed with lubricant and will be closed. The spraying of the lubricant is necessary so as to effectively control the temperature of the die and also to ensure that the finished product will be removed with ease.

When the diecasting molds have been sprayed, the molten metal will then be introduced to the die and this will be subjected under very high pressure. This kind of pressure will be maintained up until the time that the metal has formed. When the metal has been formed within the mold, the die will then be opened and the shot will be ejected by the ejector pins. From here the scrap that includes the runners, flash and the gate will be taken out from the casting which in turn is done with the use of the special trim die in power press.

There is a traditional way of taking the product out of the casting. This is done by hand or can be done by sawing. This will give some rough edges which can be remedied by grinding so as to smooth out the scrap marks. Another way is to tumble the shots and this can be done if the gates present are thin.

Die Casting Tooling an industrial process. Die casting is an industrial process used by manufacturers which involves forcing melted metal into Die Casting Tooling or also known as molds under extremely high pressure. This process is commonly used in cases where a manufacturer would need a large quantity of small sized or medium sized parts. This process can make use of ferrous metals but it usually uses non ferrous materials such as copper, zinc, aluminum and magnesium among other metals. Die casting is a great process to use where the manufacturer needs to maintain smooth surface, good quality of parts and a fairly uniform out come for each part. There is little or sometimes no need for post production machining to uniform the die cast parts.

There are two ways to achieve this process; first is to use hot chambered machine and the second is to use cold chambered machine. The former is used for metals with lower melting points and can fill in the cavities of Die Casting Tooling faster compared to the latter. However, there are metals which hot chambered machines cannot handle so cold chambered machines are used in their place.

When it comes to Die Casting Tooling, there are different sizes and shapes to choose from. There are also different styles to use and the cost will vary based on the simplicity or complexity of the mold. They are built usually from hardened steel which takes a lot of time to finish. This is the main part of the whole die casting process and is the most important part.

Kinetic Die Casting Company has several available die casting moldbases or Mold Bases for insert tools. If your company has die casting inserts only, we will mount your die casting inserts into one our available die casting tooling holders for free.

Discount for Die Casting Insert Tooling Mounting -
Sometimes a manufacturing company owns simple tooling inserts and not the moldbase or die holder to make parts. The cost to mount these inserts in another moldbase can run as high as $2500. If your company has these inserts and cannot move those inserts to Kinetic Die Casting Company because of the mounting cost. We have good news for you!

For three months: November 2009, December 2009 and January 2010, Kinetic Die Casting will offer free tool mounting for simple insert tools sent to our company for production. This a a savings of $500 to sometimes over $2500 at other die casting companies.

Here are the terms of this free mounting offer:

• Inserts must arrive in our facility no later than January 31, 2010.
• A purchase order must be approved by Kinetic Die Casting for production parts by January 31, 2010
• KDC pricing on new jobs is provided in less than three days typically, if a sample part casting and a casting print are provided.
• There will be no limitation from KDC on the minimum or maximum quantity of production parts of the part purchase order.
• Delivery of the parts can be scheduled anytime in 2010
• Simple insert means the inserts have no slides (a small fee for slides is necessary)
• Die Casting Insert Tools remain the property of the customer.
• Die Casting Moldbase or tooling holder remains the property of Kinetic Die Casting.

Contact Kinetic Die Casting today to take advantage of this free offer:

Kinetic Die Casting Company
6918 Beck Avenue
North Hollywood, California
USA 91605

800-524-8083 tel
818-982-0877 fax
sales@kineticdiecasting.com