Zinc
Lock bodies and hardware
Zinc lock bodies, handles, buckles and plated decorative parts. Thin walls and a cosmetic surface, produced on a short cycle.
Machine KS 38–88 T
Applications
A die casting machine is only right or wrong in relation to a part. These are the part families our three series are usually bought for — and the reason each one lands on a particular machine.
Zinc
Zinc lock bodies, handles, buckles and plated decorative parts. Thin walls and a cosmetic surface, produced on a short cycle.
Machine KS 38–88 T
Zinc
High-volume small parts where cycle time dominates the cost per piece. Multi-cavity dies are common.
Machine KS 38–88 T
Zinc / aluminium
Brake and clutch cables, hooks and headset leads where the wire or cable is cast into the end fitting. The insert must be placed before the die closes.
Machine KSV 130–400 T
Zinc / aluminium
Copper busbars and threaded inserts encapsulated in the casting, so the part comes out with the insert already fixed and electrically sound.
Machine KSV 130–400 T
Aluminium
Structural and housing parts where wall thickness, porosity and dimensional repeatability are specified by the customer.
Machine KSC 200–1600 T
Aluminium / zinc
Small precision housings where internal soundness and external dimensional accuracy both matter — often run on nozzle-less horizontal machines.
Machine KSC / horizontal
1. What is the alloy? Below 650 °C the shot chamber can sit in the melt, so zinc and magnesium go on a hot-chamber machine. Above it — aluminium, copper — the melt must stay in a separate furnace.
2. Is there an insert? If a cable, a wire, a busbar or a threaded insert has to be positioned in the cavity, the die must lie flat with the cavity facing up. That is a vertical machine, and there is no practical alternative.
Everything else — tonnage, platen size, shot weight, cycle time — follows from those two answers and the part drawing.
Send a photo with a ruler next to the part. We will tell you the alloy route, the machine family and the tonnage band — before you ask for a price.