Glossary
Metal Pourer Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential metal pourer terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key metal pourer vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in metal pourer training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Casting
- Part made by pouring metal.
- Cold shut
- Defect from cool metal.
- Core
- Forms internal cavities.
- Gating system
- Channels for metal flow.
- Ladle
- Container for molten metal.
- Misrun
- Incomplete casting.
- Mold
- Cavity that shapes metal.
- Pour rate
- Speed of pouring.
- Pouring temperature
- Target metal temperature.
- Riser
- Reservoir feeding shrinkage.
- Sand mold
- Mold made of packed sand.
- Shakeout
- Removing castings from sand.
- Shrinkage
- Metal contraction when cooling.
- Slag
- Impurities.
- Sprue
- Channel into the mold.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Metal Pourer practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Metal Pourer training.
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