A customer visited Effort Foundry with a simple request: “I have this impeller with no drawing, no pattern equipment.” He needed a duplicate quickly, without destroying the casting.
Effort team proposed action plan:
- Positive material ID-class 30 cast iron
- FARO arm scanning
- Effort pattern shop make series of templates to assure inside vane contour (too small for FARO arm to scan) was correct
- Effort engineers created model for 3D printing sand mold and core; engineering added gating and risering
- Casting poured and shipped in 5 weeks
