Bronze Casting

The Hydracast Art Bronze Casting range is designed for a number of applications including casting medium to large ornamental parts using the lost wax process or more traditional methods.

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Bronze Casting - Hydracast Cre'Art

Bronze casting

Hydracast Cre’ Art is a ready to use, plaster-based, fine grained refractory investment, specially formulated for use in artistic applications.

Cre’Art enables ideal value for money positioning with good mechanical resistance characteristics and good surface finishing

Technical Data

Technical Data
% water used 36
Liquid density 1.8
Mixing time minutes 4
Working / Casting time minutes 17
Initial setting time (minutes) 24
Linear expansion 2 hours after setting % 0.30%

Hydracast Tradition

Bronze casting

Hydracast Tradition is a refractory investment designed to cast bronze parts following traditional lost wax processes, such as manual or mechanical sprueing of the investment onto a wax model.

This product was designed to reproduce fine details (no sedimentation, no slumping/ flowing) and can also be mixed with chamotte to fill a mould.

Technical Data

Technical Data
% water used 42
Liquid density 1.75
Mixing time minutes 4
Working / Casting time minutes 13
Initial setting time (minutes) 17
Linear expansion 2 hours after setting % < 0.3