March Seminar: Metal Melting & Handling

About the Speaker:
Dr. David Neff has over 40 years of industrial experience in metal casting, has authored several publications in Die Casting Engineer and NADCA Transactions, and is the instructor of NADCA's Metallurgy of Aluminum Die Casting Alloys and Metal Melting and Handling Courses.

Specific items covered in the course include:

• Safety in melting and handling
• Charge materials, practices, and features of specific melting furnaces
• Pouring practices
• Origins of melt quality problems--including hydrogen absorption, inclusions, dross formation, corundum formation, and sludge
• Principles and examples of specific melt treatments normally utilized to alleviate these problems--including fluxing, flux injection, degassing, and filtration