14 January 2020. Once again, Danko Arlington is proud to be a key sponsor for neighboring Johns Hopkins University’s Baja Team for 2020.
The team has added some changes to last year’s cast aluminum CVT Backplate for improvements to its 4WD 17XT model. As the students are now used to foundry molding with 3-D sand, design changes have no cost or impact.
The company has been supplying castings and helping to educate students from the Whiting School of Engineering since 2013. At that time, before the company acquired a 3-D sand printer, any changes had to be incorporated into the hard foundry pattern. Today, with tooling-less printed sand molds, students can make all the changes they want without any impact on a pattern because there is none!
The additive manufacturing lesson taught at Danko Arlington not only yielded a perfect aluminum part within days, but demonstrated new casting freedoms for changes without impact on cost or schedule – something that these engineers will certainly remember and expect when they graduate.
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