Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Why EDM???

and they sell for $1000 dollars each in canada. Stents, that is.


Art

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Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Why EDM???


> In a message dated 10/13/00 5:00:49 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> jmelson@... writes:
>
> <<
> Anne Ogborn wrote:
>
> > I think I know how EDM works, but I'm puzzled why anyone would want
> > to make their own EDM machine.
> >>
> While at PRIME last year they passed around some parts made on a wire EDM
> machine, this uses a wire to do the cutting, and under computer control
they
> can easily move the wire. They had a hypodermic needle that had special
> computer designed slots in it, had to use a magnifier to see them. This
> device is a STENT, that is used in heart surgery, they insert the thing
and
> expand it with a balloon??? And it expands the artery that it is installed
> in. It is something that would almost be impossible to cut with a mill,
as
> the slots were so small. About the reverse of a Chinese finger trap.
> bill
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