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Article: EDM: No wear fast.
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- Metalworking Production
- Article date:
- July 16, 2009
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A new range of advanced die-sink machines provides users with the best of both worlds - high-speed cutting (fast stock removal rates) and zero electrode wear.
The new range of IQ EDM machines, equipped with GF AgieCharmilles' new Hyperspark generator and ultra-fast and responsive controls represent 'the most significant and exciting development in spark erosion technology for over a decade' claims Agie Charmilles' EDM Product Manager Max Swinbourne.
The spark erosion process causes electrode wear - this is an unavoidable fact. Historically there has always been a compromise in EDM machining between achieving high-stock removal rates (and high ...