Article: Complex, tight-radius EDM work expands horizons for tool and die shop. (electric-discharge machining; Horizon Tool and Die Inc.) (Better Production)

When Horizon Tool & Die, Inc. opened its doors for business in 1987, the first EDM job that owners Pete and Dan Badovinac took on gave a good indication of the type of work the Schaumburg, Illinois shop was interested in doing. The job at hand? A carbide die that required 0.006" wide walls that would be capable of stamping 0.001-inch thick beryllium copper to be used as webbed fusible links.

At the time, they had just one EDM machine - a used, 1981 AgieCut DEM-315 (Agie USA, 839 S. Rohlwing Road, Addison,IL 60101). "But," Dan Badovinac says "we were completely confident that the system could do the job - and we were right."

Since that initial success, ...

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