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Newly built in the mid 1970's, Excelsior Brass Works current facility is 45,000 square feet and provided with modern equipment for making high quality custom brass and bronze sand castings. Excelsior operates four furnaces with a combined melt capacity of 30,000 pounds per shift. Our engineering and metallurgical personnel are available to assist customers with casting design and material selection to assure compliance to specifications including ASTM, ASME, ASM, and Mil standards.
Markets Served
Excelsior Brass Works makes sand castings for OEM pressure type controls, meters, pumps, strainers, regulators, and valves for air, water, oil, and gas applications, hydraulic couplings and diverter valves. We also make castings for electrical connectors, marine parts, irrigation equipment, fire protection equipment, bearings, bushings, specialty machine parts, and parts requiring polish and plating quality.
Equipment
 Melting
(2) 350KW 180 cycle power supplies for 3 - 1500 lb. furnaces
(1) 125KW 960 cycle double pushout furnace for #80 crucibles
Molding
(5) Pallet line Jolt/Squeeze stations including 1 Osborne 3161 Roto-Lift
(1) Dependable Fordath Cold Set Mixer
Coremaking
(6) Automatic B&P Shell Core Machines with PLC controls
(2) Dependable Shell Core Machines (models 100 & 200)
(1) Porbeck Core Oven
(1) Sandmaster Cold Set Mixer
Sand
(1) 25 ton per hour B&P 55B Heavy Duty batch muller with 150 ton storage silo and conveyorized automatic delivery and return sand system
Cleaning
(1) 7 cu. ft. Wheelabrator (steel shot)
(2) 27 x 36 Wheelabrators
Additional equipment includes cut-off saws, abrasive belt grinders, and other related equipment to finish castings to varying customer specifications
Pattern
In-plant pattern repair and maintenance shop for gating, riggings, and minor repair. Affiliated with several local excellent pattern shops for new patterns.
Poured Materials
Copper base: red, semi red, yellow brass
High strength yellow brass, silicon bronze and brass
Tin bronze (incl. Navy M & Navy G), aluminum bronze, high copper alloy and cupro-nickel
Affiliated Materials
Gray Iron: Class 25, Class 30, Class 35 ASTM A48, Class 40 ASTM A278
Ductile Iron: 60-40-18 ASTM A395, 65-45-12 ASTM A536
Aluminum: 319, 356, and Tenzaloy
Size
Ounces to over 500 pounds
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