Drone Arm Clevis·Nimbus Labs
Trial 1
PartialA356Mar 16, 2026
Goal
Baseline pour, mirrored pair in the cavity.
Process
- Pour temp
- 700C
- Mold temp
- 170C
- Alloy batch
- A356-2603-B
- Trial date
- Mar 16, 2026
- Gating
- Shared central runner feeding both mirrored parts.
- Changed from the previous trial
- First trial on this tool
What came out
Defects observed
One of the mirrored pair consistently short at the pin boss.
Lessons learned
A shared runner does not split evenly when the two halves are not truly symmetric about it.