Spartan 4-series, No-Bake Coreshooter and CB Core shooter range
It became clear that the half-moon mixer blade design did not suit all applications and so there was a need to be able to offer the ‘turbo’ style mixing blade and the Spartan 4-series was just such a mixer. This was one project that involved Omega UK and her sister company Tinker Omega – who already had a great deal of experience with building this type of mixer in the US. The mixer retained the standard Spartan pump set and electrical controls, but now had the turbo style paddle blade with a simple ‘easy-to-remove’ blade fixing system.
Another project involving both companies was the no-bake Core shooter which was able to use either furan or self-setting phenolic urethane to produce cores. This eliminated the need for cold-box resin cured by amine gas and the subsequent emissions problem associated with that process.
After the acquisition of Warrill Engineering (WES) Omega had access to WES’s range of cold box core shooters. These machines came with a very high standard specification - all hydraulic movement and clamping, suitability for vertical and horizontal core boxes, slide fitted as standard, vertical hydraulic movement of the shoot head, vacuum Clamping for quick change of tooling, touch screen control with up to 500 recipes storage, heated gassing plate, shoot pressure, purge pressure and liquid gas controlled electronically from the main touch-screen interface and finally linear transducers on all hydraulic cylinders for precise and repeatable movement.