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🤒 Intestinal disease 🛠️ Casting channel
sprue

sprue

1 9.9
A channel that guides molten metal or plastic into a mold during casting
  • noun
  • /spruː/
  • Specialized
translation icon : canal
  • It's marathon live stream of of snipping sprues and and and sanding them.

Examples

  • What would this be Visorizer I got to trim carefully trim the sprue off of this.

  • The new housings are quite clean as they come out of the molds, needing only their sprue removed.

    Academic text (1999)

  • The technician carefully trimmed the sprue from the plastic model to ensure a smooth finish.

  • After pouring the molten metal into the mold, they waited for it to cool before cutting off the sprue.

  • In the casting process, the sprue acts as the channel through which the liquid metal flows into the cavity.

Synonyms

gating
vssprue
  • Specialized
8.6

Channels in a mold that guide hot metal into the shape

is a single channel that feeds molten material into a mold cavity

Compounds

tropical sprue
  • Specialized
1 9.1

A long illness in hot countries that makes the small intestine absorb food poorly, causing diarrhea and weight loss

Surface Forms

sprue singular
sprues plural

Etymology

Sprue is easy to remember if you think of spew, which means 'to pour out'; a helpful image is molten metal being poured. So a sprue in casting is the small channel that pours molten metal or plastic into a mold.