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Re: pic: 294 - This is How we cut (wire EDM)
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Originally Posted by Qbranch
Things that describe a wire EDM machine:
>Swiss-Watch Accurate
>Cuts things you can't cut any other way
>Slower than Molasses on the dark side of the moon in january. (Rough your parts with a standard CNC machine first if possible, or wait a day or so)
>Smoky
>$$$$$
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Add down when you need them and that's the lot, I think. This machine was down for some reason in February--and both 330 and 294 needed to put a keyway in a sprocket right at the end of build! (ECC didn't have the right size broach at the time. They got one a week or so later.)
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