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Re: E-Z Out

To: "Scott Hall" <sch8489@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>,
Subject: Re: E-Z Out
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 20:31:06 -0500
From: Scott Hall <sch8489@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>


>what's an edm machine?  that's a new one for me.

Electron Discharge Machining.  Heard about it in my machinist days, but
never did it.  The use of an electric charge and a chemical solution to "eat
away" steel in the shape of a machined carbon electrode.  I have forgotten
the electro-chemical process by which it works.  Machinists sometimes call
it "burning" as in "you could burn that out".  There are specialists who
will come to a machine shop or industrial plant as an emergency service with
their portable rigs to "burn out" broken taps or the like.

Phil Ethier    Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
Lotus Europa, VW Quantum Syncro, Chev Suburban
LOON, TCVWC, MAC
pethier@isd.net     http://www.visi.com/mac/




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