Re: edm

At 10:52 PM 10/19/99 -0500, you wrote:

>GASP! DON'T look at that page! This guy is NUTS! He has hooked
>directly from the power mains to his workpiece and electrode, with a few
>lightbulbs and a rectifier diode in series! This is so dangerous, I just

can't

>believe he really did this. (Maybe it is a troll, or he's trying to kill

us!)

It sez so right on the site that this is not very safe, and it gives
recomendations for making it safer. Believe me I wouldn't want anyone
killed, even my two fave trolls. I only wanted to show how simple it is in
principle.

>I'm leaving the above URL unobliterated so that you can see what NOT to do.

A much more positive thing to do is provide advice on how it should be done
instead, no? Maybe you can describe your home-built edm? I haven't tried
making anything toward that purpose yet but do have projects in mind.