If you’ve ever short-circuited a car battery, you’ve seen the pitting and damage a few sparks can cause. Smart minds realised that controlled sparks could erode metal very accurately, in a process now ...

Just as practical nuclear fusion has been “only 20 years away” for the last 80 years or so, the promise of electrical discharge machining (EDM) in the home shop seems to always be just around the ...

Wire EDM, often described as an electronic bandsaw with micron‑level precision, was the ideal process. However, not all EDM ...

The wire used in the electrical discharge machining (EDM) process may consist of brass, zinc-coated brass, brass-coated copper, tungsten, molybdenum or brass with a steel core, to name a few. Each ...

A new wire EDM machine is available form Absolute Machine Tools Inc.’s AccuteX EDM business unit. The SP-300iA 5-axis CNC machine is designed with advanced “microsparking technology,” the MST-II ...

HS-Rib technology reduces machining time, lowers electrode wear, and results in more uniform finishes for large sinker EDM processes 30x faster Z-axis acceleration Balancing electrode consumption, ...