Burnishability of a nickel and a cobalt base casting alloys.

A specially designed stainless steel split die capable of producing a total of 24 half cylindrical shaped wax patterns was used in this study. The burnishability of two non-precious casting alloys was evaluated following a proposed softening heat treatment technique. A practical easily applied burnishing tool was introduced. Results have shown that, both of the non-precious alloys were burnishable following softening heat treatment. However, nickel-chromium alloy was significantly more burnishable than the cobalt-chromium alloy. It is suggested that clinical implications of the developed technique in this study would be an important additive for more precision castings.