Solu-Glo™ Water Soluble Wax offers a safer, simpler and less expensive technique for detection of soluble core residue prior to the shelling
process. It is critical that all of the water soluble core material be dissolved and removed from the pattern material. If the water soluble material is not completely removed from the core, the residue causes inaccuracy in the finished casting. This further leads to reaction between the inorganic residue from the core material and the molten metal, as the molten metal enters the mold. The reaction results in a scrap casting. It is important to inspect the cavity left from the dissolution of the core material to ensure that the cavity is free of residue from the core material. Such inspection is difficult because of inaccessibility of view areas in the cavity.

There are no special handling requirements for Solu-Glo™. It is melted, injected and removed like any other standard soluble wax. The uniqueness of the fluorescing effect can be incorporated in any Argüeso soluble wax. The modification can be done without affecting the physical properties of the Argüeso soluble wax. Solu-Glo™ soluble Wax is recommended for a wide array of parts which range from simple to complicated internal configurations with narrow passages, holes or undercuts.

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