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Career Guidance Skills information skills S2.6 - calculating and estimating S2.6.1 - performing calculations Calculate allowances for shrinkage in casting processes
Description
Calculate and take into account the level of allowance and shrinkage of the casted material that occur during casting when designing the pattern for the mould. Convert the margin calculation and dimensions to exact tolerances, ensuring the pattern will be larger than the casting.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 0 occupations
- Total: 1 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- Casting mould makerCasting mould makers create metal, wooden or plastic models of the finished product to be cast. The patterns are then used to create moulds, eventually leading to the casting …
Related skills
- Casting processes
- Set up machine controls
- Attend to detail in casting processes
- Supervise work
- Non-ferrous metal processing
- Apply coating to patterns
- Ferrous metal processing
- Tend computer numerical control lathe machine
- Operate precision measuring equipment
- Tend CNC milling machine
- Types of wood
- Read standard blueprints
