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A veteran caster at the Tacoma plant told me my runner system looked 'like a nervous spiderweb' and I finally saw why my yield was low.

I switched to a single, thicker main runner with short, straight gates after that, and my scrap rate dropped from about 15% to under 5% on those aluminum brackets.
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the_jordan
Heard a similar story from a buddy in die casting.
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the_sean
the_sean5d ago
Nervous spiderweb is a funny way to put it lol. Seems like a pretty big drop in scrap just from changing the runner though.
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