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Weird question, but anyone know if wire EDM can be bent at all? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/machinist

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I saw some clay sculpting tools and started thinking it would be sweet to cut metal with something like that. The tools I saw are apparently called pottery ribbon tools, so more of a ribbon than a wire then.

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[–] Cooldude378 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wire EDM cuts exclusively in a straight line from the top head to the bottom, which can include a taper angle. The path the heads follow can be programmed to be whatever tho. I suppose something like a ribbon tool could be made for a sinker EDM but I'm not sure how well that would work. It couldn't be wire thin, but the external profile combined with a rotary head could achieve a similar result.

[–] ironeagl 2 points 1 year ago

There is 4-axis wire EDM, where the upper and lower guides can move separtely, this is probably what you are thinking of? Or more like 6-axis?