What voltages and currents are typical to Wire EDM?
Posted by
Lee Studley
on 2001-01-05 22:41:03 UTC
What voltages and currents are typical to Wire EDM?
The recent mention of a homemade how-to article is interesting.
Back in 198??, just out of high school, I attended a big Machine Tool
Show in Chicago, and watched this monster wire EDM machine cut out a
Japanese symbol in a steel plate 2" x 1.5' x 1.5'. They guy running
the machine gave it to me saying that "If you can carry it, you can
have it". I wrapped it in cardboard and checked it as luggage at the
airport. While I waited to board the plane, I got to see the poor guy
go to grab it to toss on the conveyer. It stayed put and his hands
just come upwith air. The look on his face was priceless. I guess I
should have stenciled "heavy" on it...
I eventually gave it to a friend who made an end-table or something
out of it. Now, I wish I had held on to it.
The recent mention of a homemade how-to article is interesting.
Back in 198??, just out of high school, I attended a big Machine Tool
Show in Chicago, and watched this monster wire EDM machine cut out a
Japanese symbol in a steel plate 2" x 1.5' x 1.5'. They guy running
the machine gave it to me saying that "If you can carry it, you can
have it". I wrapped it in cardboard and checked it as luggage at the
airport. While I waited to board the plane, I got to see the poor guy
go to grab it to toss on the conveyer. It stayed put and his hands
just come upwith air. The look on his face was priceless. I guess I
should have stenciled "heavy" on it...
I eventually gave it to a friend who made an end-table or something
out of it. Now, I wish I had held on to it.