Re: deep pocket milling

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@e..., Tony Jeffree <tony@j...> wrote:

> At 21:56 29/03/2001 +0000, you wrote:
> >--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@e..., "Marcus & Eva" <implmex@a...> wrote:
> > > Hi Vic:
> > > Have you considered farming that pocket out to get wire EDM

cut.

> > > A 6 1/2" deep pocket with a 1/4" corner radius is going to be a
> >pig's
> >
> >
> >How do you wire a pocket?
>
> Is this one of those Zen puzzles, like "What is the sound of one

hand

> clapping"?
>
> ;-)
>
> Regards,
> Tony

No Tony,
Wire eroders work by passing a moving length of electrically charged
wire though the work. Because of this they can only do thru shapes,
never closed pockets. Closed pockets can be done on a conventional
EDM machine but the feed rate as very very slow.
Going down to 6" over a 10" x 5" area will take about two weeks.

John Stevenson