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| awemawson:
Pete, it can tilt the wire to +_15 degrees, so the blank says flat, and the upper wire guide moves relative to the lower one. Upper head has axis designated as U & V with the table movements being X & Y. |
| philf:
--- Quote from: awemawson on February 01, 2015, 12:40:12 PM ---Pete, it can tilt the wire to +_15 degrees, so the blank says flat, and the upper wire guide moves relative to the lower one. Upper head has axis designated as U & V with the table movements being X & Y. --- End quote --- Andrew, Many years ago I saw a wire eroded part where one side of the workpiece had an outline of a horse and the other side had the outline of an elephant. I guess a machine to do this had full x/y control of top and bottom wire guides. What a nice toy to have. I made some form tools from gauge plate for machining some multi tooth pinion cutters. With a wire eroder they could have been in HSS and I could make much smaller ones than I could make with a 0.8mm end mill. Going back to the original post and Cutters from Axminster - I suspect that 15mm isn't the total width of the cutter - only the width of the cutter that can have a profile cut into it. Phil. |
| awemawson:
This machine is true 4 axis with X Y U & V all being able to be moved simultaneously under G code control. To be honest I've never played with the 'tilted wire' facility. Programming would be 'interesting' although all the cleaver bits are built into the Fanuc control, including corrections for going round corners etc. I've wanted in the past to make little 'cracker gifts' where someones christian name is one side and their surname on the other, but never actually tried |
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