Die Cast Housing Block
Rectangular cast housing with an open cavity, twin bores and mounting lugs.
Die Cast Housing Block
Die Cast Housing Block is one of the parts molded on tooling built at our Dongguan shop. Rectangular cast housing with an open cavity, twin bores and mounting lugs.
The DFM we issue for a part like this carries the gating pictures, the main mold layout with dimensions, the parting and insert split lines and the ejection concept, and it goes to you for comment before fabrication starts.
Before any steel is roughed we run the filling, packing, warpage and cooling study, so the cooling layout on this tool comes out of the analysis rather than out of habit.
Key Benefits
- Standard components to DME / Meusburger / HASCO / Progressive / MISUMI so spares stay available locally
- Reply to every enquiry inside 24 hours
- Engineering correspondence in English throughout the project
- Mold motion simulation on complex multi-action tooling
Problems It Solves
- Side actions that collide on the first close because the sequence was never simulated
- Weld lines landing on a visible face because gating was chosen for fill alone
- Warpage found at assembly rather than in the cooling study
Who It Is For
- Furniture and seating manufacturers sourcing cast bases
- Powertrain and gearbox assemblers needing cast housings
- Equipment builders replacing fabricated brackets with castings
- Buyers consolidating injection and die casting tooling with one shop
Application Scenarios
- Structural housings and gearbox bodies
- Load-bearing brackets and arms
- Office seating bases and columns
- Machined-after-cast precision components
How the Tool Behind Die Cast Housing Block Is Built
- Design
Full 3D mold design completed to one hundred percent and checked in a design review meeting.
- DFM and MoldFlow
A written DFM for your comment, and filling, packing, warpage and cooling analysis on mass production tools.
- Machining
CNC and EDM work with steel inspected dimensionally after machining and electrodes inspected before burning.
- Trial and inspection
Mold trial with trial report and sample dimension report, then final mold and packing inspection.
Technical Data
The source material for this site records the part, its category and the photograph. Dimensions, resin grade, cavity count and tolerances are project data and are confirmed in the quotation.
| Product name | Die Cast Housing Block |
|---|---|
| Reference on our catalogue | Die Casting Part3 |
| Category | Die Casting Parts |
| Process | Aluminum die casting |
| Tooling built by | Dongguan JEC Mold Co., Limited, Dongguan, China |
| Designed tool life | More than 1 million shots |
| Mold standard | Customer standard, or DME / Meusburger / HASCO / Progressive / MISUMI |
| Design data formats | STEP, IGES, Parasolid, CATIA, SolidWorks |
| Quality system | ISO 9001:2015 — Design, Manufacture and Service of Injection Molded Moulds; Manufacture and Service of Plastic Injection Molded Parts |
| Part dimensions | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Resin or alloy grade | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Cavity count | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Dimensional tolerance | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Surface finish | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Annual volume | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
What Is Checked
- Customer mold specification and requirement review and discussion during the kick-off meeting
- 3D and 2D mold design review meeting before the design is sent to you, and a final check before fabrication
- Incoming material inspection
- Steel hardness inspection and steel certification
- Electrode dimension and surface finish inspection
- Steel dimension inspection after machining
- Mold trial reports with a sample dimension report (FAI)
- Final mold inspection and packing inspection
Certification
ISO 9001:2015 — scope: Design, Manufacture and Service of Injection Molded Moulds; Manufacture and Service of Plastic Injection Molded Parts.
Customization
Mold standard, cavity count, gating strategy, surface finish and mold base supplier are all specified per project. Tell us what your own standard requires and it is folded into the DFM rather than handled as a change later.
Compared With a Prototype Tool
A production mold for Die Cast Housing Block is built to run for more than 1 million shots and is documented with a trial report and a sample dimension report. A rapid prototype mold answers a different question — is the design right — at a lower price and a faster lead time, and is not built for that life. If the design is still moving, the prototype stage is usually the cheaper route into the production tool.
Rapid Prototype MoldsUse Guide
- Send 3D part data in STEP, IGES, Parasolid, CATIA, SolidWorks
- State the resin or alloy, the annual volume and the mold standard
- Comment on the DFM before fabrication — that is the cheapest point to change anything
- Review the trial report and sample dimension report against your own drawing before release
- Keep the mold standard on file so spares stay available locally
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View details →Die Cast Housing Block — Buyer Questions
How are molds packed for export?
Final mold inspection is followed by a packing inspection before the tool leaves. Ninety percent of our molds go to overseas markets, so export packing is the normal case here rather than the exception.
How do you inspect the steel used for Die Cast Housing Block?
Incoming material inspection first, then steel hardness inspection with steel certification, then dimensional inspection after machining. Electrodes are inspected for dimension and surface finish before they are used.
Do you make the part as well as the mold for Die Cast Housing Block?
We can. Mold-making is ninety percent of our business and injection production is the other ten percent, and both sit inside the same ISO 9001:2015 scope.
Can you supply replacement inserts for a tool already in production?
Precision components making with CNC and EDM machining is a service we sell on its own. Send the insert drawing or the 3D data and we will quote it as a component job.
Quote Die Cast Housing Block
Send the 3D data, the resin and the annual volume. A professional quotation with technical comment comes back within two working days.