A foundry shop is a place where the metal casting is prepared by melting and pouring the molten metal into moulds. Some of the commonly used tools in the foundry shop for the molding process are shovel, trowel, riddle, rammer, draw spike, swab, vent wire and slick tool.
Shovel:
Shovel tool is used for mixing and tempering molding sand and for moving the sand pile to the flask.
Trowel:
A trowel tool is used to shape and smooth the surfaces of the mold and for doing small repairs. They are made of steel and are relatively long and narrow.
Riddle:
A Riddle tool is a screen or sieve used to remove small pieces of metal and foreign particles from the molding sand.
Rammer:
Rammer tool is used to compress the molding sand. The hand rammer is made of tool and resembles a handless mallet with one end flat and the other end blunt edge.
Draw spike:
Draw spike tool is used to remove the pattern from the mold and also used for rapping the pattern gently the loosen it from the sand to assure a clean draw.
Swab:
Vent wire:
A vent wire is a thin rod or wire carrying a pointed edge at one end and a wooden handle at the other end. Vent wire is used to make small holes called vents in the sand mold.
Slick tool:
Slicks tools are the spoon-shaped trowels used for repairing or smoothening a mold surface.
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Hi Sir , These are very few that i can find , it will be helpful if you can improve this article by adding few more
Can you name few tools that are not covered in this article.
Sprue pipe and Sprue cutter
Runner
Riser
Lifter
Gate cutter
Vent rod
Strike off bar
Flask, sprue pin, riser pin, gate cutter, lifter, muffle furnace, ladle