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What is wax loss method?

Lost wax method is a casting method, which was used in bronze casting in ancient China. In modern precision casting, it is called investment precision casting. The dewaxing method is to use wax as a model to turn over sand, that is, to bury the wax sample in the casting sand mold, tamp it, then heat it to make the sand mold firm, then pour out the wax, and then pour the bronze melt or molten iron into it.

Practice: Now we make a model of a vessel with wax, fill it with mud inside and outside, dry it, heat it, let the wax liquid flow out, block the wax outlet, then inject the metal solution, cool it, and knock off the filled mud, and you can get a metal vessel that feels the same as wax.

Objects cast by lost wax method can be exquisite and have the effect of hollowing out. Modeling pit, mold material is wax and butter, modeling.