Recommended Practices for Sand Casting Aluminum and Magnesium Alloys by [ American Foundrymen's Society - 1965

Des Plaines, Illinois: American Foundrymen's Society, 1965. Second Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Second Edition. vi, 154 pages. Publisher's original red cloth. Previous owners' name on front pastedown. A sound clean working copy. Front flyleaf creased. Cloth. "The first edition ... was published in 1948 and was an outgrowth of some chapters of Recommended Practices for Sand Casting of Nonferrous Alloys publsied by the American Foundrymen's Association in 1944. In connection with the considerable amount of research and development work in the light alloy industries during World War II, in the postwar conversion period and during the Korean conflict, the first edition of the book was shortly out of date and [the book was revised as here]." (preface) Deals with everything from Casting Design to Sand Practice, to melting and pouring, to heat treatments, to casting defects.