Compressor crossheads
Baoding Guokun is one of Chinese sand casting foundry who can manufacture and export various custom or standard compressor components, compressor crankshafts, compressor crossheads, compressor crosshead shoes, compressor brackets, air compressor crankshaft, compressor coupling, compressor houshing, compressor cylinder, crosshead guides, compressor coupler, air compressor spare parts with high quality and competitive prices.
Compressor crossheads information
- Material: cast iron, nodular iron or cast steel for maximum strength
- Process: sand casting or lost foam casting and precision machining
Compressor crossheads can be supplied with or without replaceable shoes or with shoes cast as an integral part of the crosshead. Integral shoes can be supplied with Babbitt or without. The replaceable shoes are made from bronze or cast iron with babbitt coating.
| Item | Green Sand casting | Resin sand casting | Precoated Sand Casting or shell mold casting | Automatic Molding Line |
| Process | Green Sand Casting is the common sand castings made using wet sand or “green sand” molds. | Resin sand casting process is using the resin sand as the molding material. Resin sand is a kind of mixture of quartz sand and resin | The main molding material is the pre-coated phenolic resin sand, which is more expensive than green sand and furan resin sand. | Green sand molding line & resin sand molding line |
| Advantage | Usually for large steel castings and iron castings. | Suitable for custom castings with rough surface requirement and low unit cost. | high dimensional tolerance, good surface quality, and less casting defects | High production rate, only suitable for small & medium castings, require annual quantity |
| Casting Tolerance | CT11-12 | CT10-11 | CT8-9 | CT10-CT11 |
| Surface | ||||
| Weight | 5000kgs max. | 5000kgs max | 50kgs max | 10-50 kgs |
| Metal | Cast steel, Cast Iron, cast aluminum | Cast iron, Cast steel,cast aluminum, bronze | Cast steel, Cast Iron, cast aluminum, bronze | gray iron, ductile iron casting |
