How to Prevent Ingot Sticking in an Ingot Mold?
An ingot mold is a small, non-precision vessel that holds molten aluminum while it solidifies into a block, and small flaws in its surface can easily turn a routine pour into a stuck block and a delay. A sow mold, or sow mould, faces the same risk at a much larger scale, since a stuck block there means a far heavier problem to free. Preventing sticking comes down to mold design, material, and quality control working together. Why Ingots Stick in an Ingot Mold in the First Place? Sticking almost always starts with the mold’s surface condition rather than anything unusual about the aluminum being poured. An ingot mold has no cooling system, so the block solidifies at its own natural pace, and any surface roughness, pitting, or subsurface discontinuity in the steel gives molten aluminum more places to key into as it cools. Because an ingot mold is a small, non-precision vessel producing a block of only tens of kilograms, even minor surface defects can have an outsized effect on rel
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