GIGA PRESS UNCOVERED | Chapter 2/5 - The Choice of Crew and the Division of Tasks 

👍

We all are 😉

In Italy you stop being a child and start being regarded as a young man at 45, more or less.

These videos are essentially advertising to the rest of the automotive industry... Highlighting the role Tesla played might enhance IDRAs image, but it removes the ability of another automotive OEM executive to imagine themselves when they hear "automotive partner". Standard marketing technique.

You are basically saying give credit where is due: TESLA.

Of course Tesla pushed them and the boundaries of what is possible. They just don't want to be associated to just one costumer, they want to keep doors open. But some references are pretty clear, they mention automotive producers and that are doing this for a greener future for the next generations

SANDY MUNRO showed Gigacasting back in 2016 to Ford and gm, they walked away. Tesla was impressed. and went from 70 parts to 3 casting in 3 Months.

Yes, Tesla developed its own aluminum, berrilium and other metals for the IDRA injection process.

That is my big question. From my understanding, it was the Tesla metallurgy group that came up with a proprietary aluminum alloy that doesn't need heat treating. I'm curious to see what IDRA's version of events are. And if these presses even make sense without the new alloy.

Proprietary Tesla 346 aluminium alloy developed in house by Tesla`s metallurgy engineers.

tesla has their own proprietary aluminium alloy for their huge parts, which require no additional heat for maximum strength.

@@donm2255 a large press like this could still be used with conventional alloys, it would just be used to make larger quantities of smaller parts (multiple cavities in the same die) or to make parts as large as Teslas but requiring more machining after casting.

quando realizzarai qualcosa di anche solo lontanamente paragonabile, ti renderai conto di cosa significhi esserne orgogliosi

Great question. Perhaps its in the reuseability. Curious what the answer will be!!

A mold is used for molten metal (or just about anything in the liquid form). A die is used to stamp solid metals. Dies are used to stamp car bodies for instance. They take a solid sheet of metal and the die is in the shape of whatever part you want. You then press the sheet of metal into the dye to form the shape. With a mold the metal is melted forced in to the mold through vacuum and pressure it then cools and the mold opens up and you have your part.

One is a bacterial colony and the other is what happens at end of life... (Sorry, couldn't help it)... A mold is an interim product. You cast a mold from an original and then use it to make copies. A die is used to make a part. (To add confusion, the word "mold" is often used to describe any negative formwork used in casting, regardless of how it was made)

@@EnlightenedSavage Thats not entirely correct. Usually die casting is referred to liquid metal injected into a so-called die. Injecting plastics is called injection molding. The terminology doesn‘t quite make sense.

@@EnlightenedSavage This is not the whole picture. In Die Casting, you still use molten metal, but it is forced into the die under very high pressure, instead of forcing the die through, or onto the die or form. It can be confusing, a limitation of the language.