Re: Comments & Questions fo the List

What kind of costs are we looking at for one of these older EDM
machines,
perhaps with a dead controller? I have wanted to do some parts from time
to time that EDM would be good at, but could never justify the expense
of
having a "real" shop do them.

Bill Martin


Roland Friestad wrote:

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> From: Roland Friestad <cardinal.eng@...>
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> May 11, 1999 - 4:24PM - CDT
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> 4) Re: EDM users - I am using Ram and Wire EDM - However they are a sort of
> mixture of commercial and homebuilt - What I did was find some distressed
> commercial units and rigged them up with a combination of software and
> hardware - I've been working on a homebuilt Wire EDM for quite a while but
> it seems that there is never enough time to devote to it - Now that the
> newer Wire EDM equipment is out it is sometimes possible to find some REALLY
> GOOD DEALS on the outdated stuff - The problem is just like that with buying
> outdated CNC Mills - The controllers are horrible to keep running - A
> combination of some of the homebuilt EDM power supplies that have been
> published recently along with homebuilt CNC controllers could put these old
> EDM machines in the home shops in the near future -
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>
> Roland Friestad <cardinal.eng@...
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