Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Is anyone doing EDM in a home shop?

Randy Bachmann wrote:

>I was just curious if anyone was doing EDM work in a home machine
>shop and if so for what purpose. I thought EDM was for injection
>mold tooling.
>
>

A very simple EDM process is used to burn out broken taps. I built one
for this
purpose, and found that it will work for other applications. If I ever
need to
burn a hole in carbide inserts, for instance, I now know how to do it.
It is a bit
slow, however.

Jon