Equipment

Located near Seattle, Washington, Pentz Cast Solutions fills a 37,000 square foot building with a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art equipment.

Building

• Steel & concrete construction; fire sprinkler protected
• 37,000 sq. ft. Existing Total

Business/Manufacturing Software/Hardware:

• Visual Manufacturing Software
• Windows 2000 OS
• SQL Server

Automated Green Sand Aluminum Foundry:

• Roberts Sinto, FBOll 16"x20" Automated molding system, PLC controlled
• Roberts Sinto, 1620, Automated mold handling system, PLC controlled
• States Engineering, M2500 Ring Mullor & sand system, PLC controlled

Melt Equipment for Automated Molding, Installed new, August 1999

• Thermtronics, 1,500 lb. / gas fired crucible furnaces, PLC, qty 4
• Automated alum. melt cap. 6,000 lbs. wet, 2,800 lbs. per hr melt rate
• Pyroteck Rotary Degasser, removes gas & oxides from melt, qty 2
• Wedron Flux injector, removes gas & oxides from melt, qty 2
• Specific Gravity testing system for detection of gas & oxides in melt
• Baird Foundry Mate Spark Spectrometer, Chemical Analysis, Solid State

Manual Green Sand Aluminum Foundry Molding Equipment:

• 3191 Osborn Rotalift molding machine, up to 32"x 52" mold capacity
• 3161 Osborn Rotalift molding machine, up to 26"x 36" mold capacity
• Molding stations using Jolt Squeeze molding machines, qty 4
• Floor molding 7’x 7’ mold size to 20’x 4’ mold size
• 3 Ton Overhead Cranes, qty 2

Melt Equipment for Manual Molding:

• Electric Resistance Crucible 1,000 lb. Alum. melting furnaces, qty 3
• Gas Fired Crucible 1,500 lb. Alum. melting furnace
• Gas Fired Crucible 1,000 lb. Alum. melting furnace
• Electric Resistance Reverb 3,200 lb. Alum. melting furnace
• Manual Alum. Melt cap. 8,700 lbs. wet, 3,000 lbs. per hour melt
• Pyrotek Rotary Degasser, removes gas & oxides from melt
• Wedron Flux Injector, removes gas & oxides from melt
• Baird Foundry Mate Spark Spectrometer, Chemical Analysis, Solid State

Permanent Mold Department:

• Hall 3HXS Permanent Mold machine, PLC operated, new 1998
• Stahl PM test bar mold

Core Shop:

• Laempe, Automated LB25, ISOSET / SO2 Core making system. Specifications:
  • Shooting cap.: 25 ltr. single, 50 ltr., Double Shot
    75 lbs. single,150 lbs., Double Shot
  • Core box size: 31.5" depth max.
    23.6" height max.
    15.75" width max. vert. parted
    31.12" width max. horiz. parted
• Dakota Scrubber (SO2 gas)
• Dependable 400 Shell Core Machine
• Palmer Mixer (No Bake Cores), 250 lbs. / Hour
• Omco Super Bowl core mixer for Sodium Silicate, CO2 and No Bake cores

CNC Machining Department:

• Solid Works CAD station
• Cimatron CAD/ CAM tooling/mold making system
• Mitsubishi MH4 Horizontal CNC Machine
• Okuma MCV420 Vertical CNC Machine
• Haas VF-6 60"x32"x30" Vertical CNC machining center, 5th axis attachment
• Haas VF-9 84"x40"x30" Vertical machining center, 4th axis attachment
• FADAL 40"x24"x15" Vertical CNC machining center
• Lagun 40" Universal mill w/ DRO, qty 2
• Victor 16"x40" Lathe
• 1B Burgmaster drills, qty 3
• 2BL Burgmaster drill
• Clausing drill presses, qty 20
• Desutter tapping heads, qty 6
• Helicoil installer
• Mitering horizontal band saw
• Various measuring equipment (see QA equipment section)

Finishing Room:

• Oliver 38" double disc grinder/ sander, qty 2
• Hammond double back stand grinder/ sander, qty 2
• Hand held air powered belt & disc sanders, qty 25
• Dake 75 ton hydraulic press
• Dake 150 ton hydraulic press

Fabrication / Welding Department:

• Miller Syncrowave 351 TIG welder
• Miller MIG welder
• Miller stick welder

Pattern Shop:

• Powermatic 12"/14" table saw
• Rockwell 10" table saw
• Northfield 36" band saw
• Northfield 18" jointer
• Fay & Egan 24" planer
• Oliver 20" wood lathe
• Master tilting arbor spindle sander
• Max double 36" disc sander
• 36"x60" Starrett granite inspection table
• Various pieces of CNC machining equipment (see CNC Machining Department section)

Paint / Anodize / Chem. Treat. / Powder Coat:

• Pentz Design works with a number of qualified subcontractors in the Puget Sound area.

Quality Assurance and Inspection:

• Baird, Foundrymate Spark Spectrometer, Chemical Analysis, Solid State
• Philips “Real Time” X-ray system, 160kv, manipulator, SVHS
• Gemini “Real Time” X-ray system, 320kv, manipulator & ind. recorder
• Starrett Rapid Check, CMM 28"x40"x18" capacity
• Various hand measuring equipment (miscellaneous calipers, thread gauges, dial gauges, hole gauges etc.)

Complete Sand Testing Laboratory:

• Dietert Lab Equipment
• #405 Sand strength tester, with accessories
• #401 Sand strength tester, with accessories
• Compactability rammer/ tester
• Moisture teller
• Perm meter, electric
• Methelene Blue, tests active clay
• Ultrasound cleaner, sample preparation
• Electronic lab scale, 500 gram, +/- 1/100 gram
• Speedy moisture tester
• Rotap screen sieve tester