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Offline Chunker119

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Needing parts wired out... Can anyone help?
« on: October 27, 2021, 06:44:02 PM »
I am needing some parts made that I believe I can be cut out on a wire EDM machine. Can anyone assist in this? If so, PM me.

I appreciate the help!

Sincerely,
Colton
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Offline Tim Crosby

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Re: Needing parts wired out... Can anyone help?
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2021, 10:46:03 PM »
  Let's start with, what kind of parts?

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Re: Needing parts wired out... Can anyone help?
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2021, 11:26:36 PM »
Tim's point is good....what kind of parts?  But in general..... I have a fair number of parts wire EDM'd.  The places I use are local here in Southern California. If you can send them a STEP file, they can usually feed that directly into the machine....makes for less work for the EDM house and resultantly lower cost to you.
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Re: Needing parts wired out... Can anyone help?
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2021, 12:54:17 AM »
One of the parts is a hammer and the other is a trigger.
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Re: Needing parts wired out... Can anyone help?
« Reply #4 on: October 28, 2021, 08:08:26 PM »
Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to get a hammer blank of the correct "throw" from Trackofthewolf?
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Re: Needing parts wired out... Can anyone help?
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2021, 02:17:11 PM »
Edm’d cutting seems good for multiple parts that would be redundant in making a production setup, but for one off parts, it doesn’t seem economical nor useful.  On the trigger, wouldn’t you need to start out with thicker material then needed which would require machining just to get the right thickness where your finger would touch?  As for the hammer….still so much shaping to do.  I’m not up on the latest on Edm but I thought it was just for cutting, not shaping in a 3D .
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