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F. George McDuffee
 
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Default OT - CNC and Linux

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:54:10 +0000, (DoN.
Nichols) wrote:
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And -- the wax can then be used for lost wax casting of your
workpiece. Of course, you need to scale it up a slight bit -- to
accommodate the shrinkage of whatever metal you are casting.

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If you design in cad it is a "piece of cake" to use the scale
command to get whatever shrink factor you want. Lost wax
eliminates the need for any draft angles.