

Average daily melt capacity:
200 tons
Foundry melting equipment:
5 coreless induction furnaces, 6 tons each
Heat treating equipment:
8 elevator type electric furnaces
Malleable Iron Foundry:
2 Model 2016 B/P automatic flaskless molding machines serviced by two continumatic
mold-handling conveyors.
3 Model HMP lOD Hunter
automatic molding machines. Flask size of 14" x 19" serviced by HV-l0 mold-handling
turn tables.
Jolt-Pin-Lift cope
and drag machines. Flask sizes of 20" x 20", 20" x 25", 20" x 40", 18" x 32" and
18" x 36".
Ductile & Gray Iron
Foundry:
2 Model 2016 B/P automatic molding machines
1 Hunter Model HMP-20C, mold size 20" x 24" with continumatic mold-handling
1 Model HMP lOD Hunter automatic molding machine. Flask size of 14" x 19" serviced
by a HV-10 mold- handling turn table.
2 Jolt-Squeeze-Pin
Lift machines flask size 20" x 20", 20" x 25", 20" x 24", 18" x 32" and 18" x 36".
Coremaking Facilities:
3 #2 Redford oil sand core blowers
1 HS 16 Redford shell core
4 HP 43 Redford shell core
1 HP 42 Redford shell core
1 U 180 shell core machine
1 Plainer no-bake core machine
2 HS 16 Redford cold box core machine
3 Laempe core centers (cold box)
Cleaning & Grinding
Facilties:
4 Super-14 shot blast machines
2 tumbling barrels
11 snag grinding units
1 abrasive cut-off machine
19 regrinding units
Both foundries are supported by the following
:
Quality - state of the art metallurgical lab consisting of:
Baird dv-6 spectrometer
Leco cs-244
Unitron microscope with video monitor
Unitron stereoscope
Various Brinell hardness testers
Tinius Olsen 60 l tensile machine with chart recorder
Magnetic particle PX304 image machine
Complete sand lab facility
Core making:
3 #2 Redford oil sand core blowers
1 HS16 Redford shell machine
4 HP43 Redford shell machines
1 HP42 Redford shell machine
1 HP44 Redford shell machine
1 U180 Shell machine
1 Palmer no bake machine
1 HS16 Redford cold box machine
3 Laempe core centers, cold box
Pattern - full service pattern capabilities available
Engineering drawings may now be sent to Buck as CAD files:
Secondary operations :
Machining, plating and painting available
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