Die Casting Comes Home

According to Hackaday, hobbyists are bringing die casting—a manufacturing technique typically found in industrial foundries—into their home workshops. Die casting relies on pressurized equipment and fluids that demand serious safety precautions, which is perhaps why most makers have traditionally left this work to commercial operations. One innovator is taking on the challenge of home die casting, blending factory-grade fabrication with garage ingenuity.

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