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9.5 Casting ........................................................................................................................................................... 24
9.5.1 Graphite insert ................................................................................................................................................ 24
9.5.2 Ceramic crucible ............................................................................................................................................. 24
10 Alloys ......................................................................................................................................................... 25
10.1 Gold casting and high gold content ceramic bonding alloys
Universal and silver-palladium alloys ................................................................................................................. 25
10.2 Reduced precious metal ceramic bonding and palladium-based alloys .................................................................. 25
10.3 CoCrMo and non-precious metal alloys ............................................................................................................... 25
10.4 Titanium and aluminium-containing alloys .......................................................................................................... 26
10.5 Description of alloy database ............................................................................................................................ 26
10.5.1 Enter new alloys .............................................................................................................................................. 27
10.5.2 Casting of alloys .............................................................................................................................................. 29
10.5.3 Deleting datasets ............................................................................................................................................. 29
11 Spruing system ........................................................................................................................................... 30
11.1 Melt characteristics of Heraenium CE and Heraenium EH .................................................................................... 30
11.1.1 Preparations .................................................................................................................................................... 30
11.1.2 Premelting (phase 1, 2, 3) ................................................................................................................................ 30
11.1.3 Insert the casting mould ................................................................................................................................... 30
11.1.4 Main melt ....................................................................................................................................................... 30
11.2 Melt characteristics of Heraenium alloys ............................................................................................................ 31
12 Maintenance ............................................................................................................................................... 32
12.1 Maintenance and care ...................................................................................................................................... 32
12.1.1 – daily ............................................................................................................................................................ 32
12.1.2 – weekly (or after 100 castings) ........................................................................................................................ 32
12.1.3 – annually (or after 3.000 castings) ................................................................................................................... 32
12.1.4 – after 30.000 casting or after 3 years ............................................................................................................... 33
12.2 Tests .............................................................................................................................................................. 33
12.3 Maintenance ................................................................................................................................................... 33
12.4 Disposal .......................................................................................................................................................... 33
12.4.1 Disposal of old equipment according to WEEE .................................................................................................... 33
13 Repair / Maintenance work ........................................................................................................................... 34
13.1 Exchanging the pump oil .................................................................................................................................. 34
13.2 Exchangingthepumplter ............................................................................................................................... 35
13.3 Exchangingthelterinthevalvebox ................................................................................................................. 35
14 Exchanging the cooling water ....................................................................................................................... 35
15 Technical data ............................................................................................................................................ 36
15.1 Rating plate .................................................................................................................................................... 36
16 Circuit diagrams .......................................................................................................................................... 37
16.1 Compressed air ................................................................................................................................................ 37
16.2 Water circulation ............................................................................................................................................. 37
16.3 Terminal assignment ........................................................................................................................................ 38
17 Alloys ......................................................................................................................................................... 39
18 Control information Heracast iQ .................................................................................................................... 40
19 Service ....................................................................................................................................................... 41
19.1 Service agents / Contact in the countries ............................................................................................................ 41
20 Document history ........................................................................................................................................ 42
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