On 07/21/2016 12:16 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 21 July 2016 00:00:12 TJoseph Powderly wrote: > >> Gene >> once again your post title ran me off as i took it to be correct >> your post is titled 'continuous wire' >> not disk, hahaha >> > My bad Tomp, I thought about it, but understood quickly that such a > machine was waaaaay above my pay grade. I was wondering if something > using just a couple feet of wire, butt welded like a bandsaw blade, > might be possible. Or would the wire, flooded for coolant, still burn up > rapidly? > > Robert Langlois (wrote a book on EDM that was published by Village Press) showed a wire EDM at the old NAMES shows. He used a molybdenum wire that ran back and forth between large rollers. So, he probably had something like 20 feet of wire in the machine, and it reversed when it neared either end. The rate of the wire movement was not very fast, maybe a few feet per minute.
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