Talk:Metal casting

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Personally I think Casting should point to Casting (performing arts). I'd never heard of iron casting until I got to this page. I don't know how others feel about that. 67.181.63.245 7 July 2005 21:31 (UTC) This is a ludicrous suggestion - metal casting has been in existence since about 4000 B.C. - it is one of the most important processes in manufacturing.

This page majorly plajorizes this site: http://www.abdiecasting.com/WhatIsDieCasting.html -Quodfui

The material added by 85.101.82.209 has now been removed. See Revision as of 01:56, 16 March 2006 85.101.82.209 (→Centrifugal casting) — Graibeard^(talk) 06:50, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I added a dispute to the Cooling Rate section showing comparisons between sand casting and die casting. In my opinion, the first statement is true. However the next two paragraphs would seem to show a bias towards diecasting to someone who has experience with no or little experience with casting processes. The reference to a Pillings Bedworth Ratio is questionable because this has never been used in any casting research. It seems to give the section some credibility but no references are cited. The Pillings Bedworth Ratio has to do with corrosion and oxide formation and does not relate grain size of metal and strength. The writer should have referenced Chvorinov's Law first to help the reader understand the relationship between cooling rate and other factors. No mention is made of the use of chills other casting processes, such as sand or plaster molding. Some persons looking for information on the casting process may look to Wikipedia for information on choosing casting processes and articles should not mislead them into beleiving one casting process is superior to another. Each casting process has distinct advantages and disadvantages. Mfields1 10:44, 6 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

External Links in the Casting Article

There is a protocol for linking to external sites Wikipedia:Spam#External_link_spamming Some of the links seem to promote commercial products. I'd like to see some discussion about this, as this tends to distort the article into an advertisment. Mfields1 20:32, 27 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]