Re: gEDA-user: Putting holes in hard steel - was - Re: the joy and sadness of new boards

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 03 April 2009, evan foss wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
>> On Friday 03 April 2009, evan foss wrote:
>>>On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 6:36 PM, andrewm <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> If anybody has a better idea, yelp.
>>>>
>>>> EDM ?
>>>
>>>Don't you aready need a hole to run the wire threw?
>>
>> A hole for a wire through it?  No.
>>
>>>Or are you just
>>>going to live with a very thin line cut threw to the hole?
>>>
>>>If your are going to spend EDM level money water jet would be better.
>>
>> Drilling holes with EDM?   Straight plunge cut/burn.  Hole size determined
>> by the electrode in this case.  Only milling machine motion if I get the
>> right electrode size is z, at about .001" a minute, which emc can manage
>> nicely.  I have everything but the right sized electrode on hand.  Even
>> some trash that needs burnt by tossing the used kerosene on it. :)
>
>Oh yea I was just thinking about wire edm not sink edm. Sorry.
>
Hey, stuff happens. :)
>> --
>> Cheers, Gene
>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
>> It seems a little silly now, but this country was founded as a protest
>> against taxation.
>>
>>
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-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Who loves not wisely but too well
Will look on Helen's face in hell,
But he whose love is thin and wise
Will view John Knox in Paradise.
		-- Dorothy Parker



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