Lighting Fixtures and aluminum castings Parts are electrical devices used to create artificial light or illumination in houses and buildings. Lighting fixtures are classified as indoor lighting fixtures or outdoor lighting fixtures. A complete lighting fixture unit consists of the light source or lamp, the light reflector for directing the light, an aperture (with or without a lens), the outer shell or housing for lamp alignment and protection, an electrical ballast, if required, and connection to a power source. A wide variety of special light fixtures are created for use in the automotive lighting industry, aerospace lighting, marine lighting and medical lighting.
Free-standing lighting fixtures or portable – table lighting fixtures and office task lights.
Recessed light fixture – the protective housing is concealed behind a ceiling or wall, leaving only the lighting fixture itself exposed. The ceiling-mounted version is often called a “downlight”.
“Downlight Cans” a variety of lamps – this term is jargon for inexpensive downlighting products that are recessed into the ceiling. The name comes from the shape of the lighting fixture housing.
Troffer lighting fixture – recessed fluorescent lights (the word comes from the combination of trough & coffer)
Surface-mounted light – the finished light fixture housing is exposed; not “flush” with surface
Sconce lighting fixture – provide up or down lights; can be used to illuminate artwork, architectural details; commonly used in hallways and/or as an alternative to overhead lighting.
Indirect lighting – light reflects off the ceiling for general illumination
Cove light – lighting fixture recessed into the ceiling in a long box against a wall
Track light fixture – individual fixtures (track “heads”) can be positioned anywhere along the track, which provides electric power.
Outdoor lighting – lighting fixtures used to illuminate walkways, parking lots, roadways, building exteriors, landscape and architectural details.
Outdoor light Pole or stantion mounted – for landscape, roadways, and parking lot lighting fixtures
Pathway lighting fixtures – typically mounted in the ground at low levels for illuminating walkways
Outdoor Bollards – A type of architectural outdoor lighting fixture that is a short, upright ground-mounted unit typically used to provide cutoff type illumination for egress lighting, to light walkways, steps, or other pathways
industrial lights – often long lines of fluorescent lamps used in a warehouse or factory
Emergency lighting or Exit light – connected to a battery or to an electric circuit that has backup power if the main power fails
Castings Aluminum Company provides and manufactures die casting molds and die casting tooling, or aluminum die casting mold tooling, are made of alloy tool steels in at least two sections, the fixed die half, or cover half, and the ejector die half, to permit removal of die castings. Modern die casting molds and dies also may have movable slides, cores or other sections to produce holes, threads and other
desired shapes in the casting. Shot holes in the fixed die half allow molten aluminum metal to enter the die and fill the cavity. The ejector half usually contains the runners (passageways) and gates (inlets) that route molten metal to the cavity. Dies also include locking pins to secure the two halves, ejector pins to help remove the aluminum cast part, and openings for coolant and lubricant.
When the aluminum die casting machine closes, the two die halves are locked and clamped together by the machine’s hydraulic pressure. The surface where the ejector and fixed halves of the die meet and clamp is referred to as the “die parting line.” The total projected surface area of the part being cast, measured at the die parting line, and the pressure required of the machine to inject metal into the die cavity governs the clamping force of the machine.
Die Casting Molds and die casting tooling are also known as die casting tooling dies, die casting mold bases with insert dies. Unit dies are another common type of die casting tooling. Aluminum die casting tooling also comes in different sizes, shapes, and styles. Die Casting Mold tooling comes either with a single cavity or multiple cavities tooling and also family dies. The price for a die casting mold or tool varies as well as for die casting trim dies and die casting cavity inserts.
Aluminum die casting Trim Tooling. Aluminum Parts sometimes require die casting trim tooling. After a die casting part is manufactured with the tooling in the casting machine, a die casting trim tool called a “die casting trim die” is used to cut or sheer the extra aluminum surrounding the parts. Die casting trim dies may save as much as 15% in the part costs by speeding up the part production process. Die casting trim dies cut or shear extra metal from die cast parts. The trim dies sits or is mounted into a trim press that hydraulically forces the two halves of the trim die together to sheer material with several tons of pressure.
Castings Aluminum Company is located in Los Angeles, California, USA. Contact us if you have questions or if you are unsure if we can help you. We are happy to answer your questions. Contact Castings Aluminum Company to get an estimated die casting part price quote for a new product or an existing die casting product
Die Casting Part Costs and Proposals
Send us one of your current parts as a sample part for a part price quote. Email, fax or send us your Proposal Request (RFP) or your Request For Quote (RFQ). Email us at the listed email of (sales@castings-aluminum.com) Send us a copy of your blueprint in a PDF print, DXF file, IGES file, or 3D model to our email. If you have a sample part, feel free to send us the sample part for a price quote. The following information helps us generate a price quote for you, please provide as much as possible:
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Located in Los Angeles California, Castings Aluminum Company uses computer-aided Die Casting Machine production controls to produce and ship aluminum die casting parts to our customers on time. We will usually ship quality aluminum die casting parts and products in four weeks from the time the order is placed. We can expedite some aluminum die casting part product shipments in less than two weeks. Our aluminum die casting machine sizes range from 130 tons to 600 tons. We make many types of Aluminum die casting parts from less than an ounce up to a ten pound die casting aluminum part shot. We will gladly produce aluminum die castings in any of the many alloys of aluminum.
We will machine, paint, powder coat, polish, ball burnish, assemble, and package to meet your needs.
American-made Aluminum Die Casting parts. We use many alloys such as 380 aluminum alloy, 328 aluminum alloy, 360 aluminum alloy, 383 aluminum alloy, and 413 aluminum alloy.
