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Article: Complex, tight-radius EDM work expands horizons for tool and die shop. (electric-discharge machining; Horizon Tool and Die Inc.) (Better Production)
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- Modern Machine Shop
- Article date:
- May 1, 1992
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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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... ... the two companies say the deal is, in part, an agreement to continue their ongoing working relationship. Last year the two companies collaborated to develop support for the complete line of Agie EDM systems with DP's ESPRIT/W product.
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