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How to do Panel Casting

 Many of you are confused about how to do Panel casting & how does it work. Panel casting is a very simple thing. Neither you should have to do any hard work nor you should have to count for any details. The work should be done perfectly, that's the only thing it matters. But before that I want to say if you have not read about RE Wall design than you are going to understand nothing. First read that blog after that you will understand here. Click on the following link.


First of all you should have to know about the cavity connector's, which you have to give before panel casting. It's 255mm in length, 140m in breadth & 115mm in height. You can see in the image.


Not in all cases you will get the same measurement. In every cases it's different. But the main thing is that, you see whether all the cavity connector's from center-center is 800mm or not. 
See here, the c/c distance of cavity is 400, 400 i.e., 800mm to both side. 

But what is that cavity. Or how the cavity comes. You can see at the image. It's of black color and it's fitted in a reinforcement cage like this. And that time only you have to maintain cavity c/c distance. Otherwise after casting it's of no use. You cannot even slide the cavity to maintain it's c/c distance. 


And after panel casting the panel will look like this. It's very unique and this type of work is very interesting after you know it. 

So, all these things are over. Now what to do after panel casting. You cannot keep the panels like this in the mold, after casting. You have to take the panels and place it somewhere. So that it gets hardened, the concrete also gets stronger bonding, & after that ready for launching. 

So how you will launch it, that I will explain you in another blog. But here I will explain you, how you will place it. Or how you will do the placing. 
You all have seen Hydra, or say (crane), that is used for to lift something. Some kind of heavy loads. That Hydra is used for lifting the panels. First of all you have to bring tuition or bell, whatever makes you easy to lift. After that, you have to insert it at the cavity box and then lift it by Hydra. But before that make sure, whatever material you take to lift doesn't takes much more time to finish the work. Otherwise the whole day you have to go on by doing that. Just look at both the images. Here I will explain you briefly. 
Here the panel is lifted by both tuitions & bell. It takes much more time and even gets difficult to lift up. First you insert the tuition, after that you take the D-cycle and put it, after that again you insert the bell in the D-cycle😔. After that you lift it by Hydra. It's a lengthy process and what's the time you take to do it fast, it takes a mid-day to complete it. Max. 2-3 hrs. So this process is not preferable. 

But here you see, only 4-tuitions are brought of length3.5m each, and after that you make a ring out of it. Then you insert it inside the cavity box (4 cavity box) and then lift it by Hydra. This process is very fast and it takes only 2-3 minutes to place one panel. It's simple and this process is very fast also. This is more preferable. 

So you ahve understood how to do Panel Casting and how to do Panel placing. Next I will explain you of launching of panels. Thank you. 

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