{"id":4153,"date":"2013-02-13T01:19:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T08:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2013-12-31T23:34:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T06:34:28","slug":"aluminum-sand-casting-parts-may-be-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/aluminum-sand-casting-parts-may-be-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Aluminum Sand Casting Parts May Be Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fblike_button\" style=\"margin: 10px 0;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kineticdiecasting.com%2Fkdc%2Faluminum-sand-casting-parts-may-be-better%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;font=verdana&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:23px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Aluminum Sand Casting Parts May Be Better.  Several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/replyform.html\" title=\"Request Aluminum Part Prices\" target=\"_blank\">Requests For Quotes (RFQs) for aluminum part prices<\/a> come to Kinetic Die Casting and it is obvious that the requester does not understand the difference between aluminum sand casting parts and aluminum die casting parts.  Today, we will discuss the pricing difference between sand casting and die casting of aluminum parts.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>2,000 Aluminum Parts Casting Decision<\/strong><br \/>\nIf your product is limited to less than 2,000 aluminum parts in the entire product life cycle or stated differently you will want less than 2,000 aluminum parts in your product life cycle and never need more parts, sometimes a part produced by the aluminum sand casting is a better choice for you.   <\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are my aluminum part price calculations:<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/sandcasting.html\" title=\"Aluminum Sand Casting Parts\" target=\"_blank\">Aluminum Sand Casting Parts<\/a>:<br \/>\nTypical Tooling Cost:   $500 &#8211; $2500<br \/>\nTypical Part Cost:      $13 &#8211; $15 each (machined)<br \/>\nSo using $500 tooling price (lowest typical) and $13 for part price:<\/p>\n<p>Cost for 500 parts:     $ 7,500<br \/>\nCost for 1000 parts:    $13,500<br \/>\nCost for 2000 parts:    $26,500 <\/p>\n<p>Aluminum Die Casting Parts<br \/>\nTypical Tooling Cost:   $10,000 &#8211; $12,000<br \/>\nTypical Part Cost:      $2.50 &#8211; $3.50 each (machined)<br \/>\nSo using $10,000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/tooling.html\" title=\"Die Casting Tooling Prices\" target=\"_blank\">die casting tooling price<\/a> (lowest typical) and $2.50 for part price.<\/p>\n<p>Cost for 500 parts:     $11,250 ($3,750 more expensive)<br \/>\nCost for 1000 parts:    $12,500 ($1,000 less expensive)<br \/>\nCost for 2000 parts:    $15,000 ($11,500 less expensive)<br \/>\n <center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Rk0ki-rldY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the cost is equal or less for an aluminum part as a sand cast part, if you will buy less than 2,000 parts.  If you feel your product life is more than 2,000 parts, you should consider buying aluminum die casting parts.  If your product life is greater than 5,000 parts your savings are so significant it is embarrassing.  Contact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/\" title=\"Kinetic Die Casting Company\" target=\"_blank\">Kinetic Die Casting Company<\/a> 800-2524-8083 (<a href=\"mailto:sales@kineticdc.com\" title=\"sales@kineticdc.com\">sales@kineticdc.com<\/a>) if you feel you are paying to much for your aluminum castings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aluminum Sand Casting Parts May Be Better. Several Requests For Quotes (RFQs) for aluminum part prices come to Kinetic Die Casting and it is obvious that the requester does not understand the difference between aluminum sand casting parts and aluminum &hellip;<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/aluminum-sand-casting-parts-may-be-better\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97,105],"tags":[170,52,146,31,180,111],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-die-casting-parts","category-newsletter","tag-aluminum-die-casting","tag-aluminum-parts","tag-aluminum-sand-castings","tag-die-casting-tooling","tag-kinetic-die-casting-company","tag-sand-casting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5005,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions\/5005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kineticdiecasting.com\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}