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WIRE EDM “THE FUNDAMENTALS” BY DONALD B. MOULTON EDM NETWORK Sugar Grove, IL USA st Today, as we embrace the 21 century, there are far greater demands for higher precision in machining, ease of operation, and increased longevity of both the parts, and the machines that make them. CNC Wire EDM can satisfy and meet all these needs. The precision machining of complex geometry’s can be easily accomplished with minimal operations. A B S T R A C T WIRE EDM FUNDAMENTALS Today’s wire electrical discharge machines have many features and improvements from machines manufactured in the past. This paper is intended to give you a better understanding and basic overview of the fundamentals, features and practical uses of Wire EDM. 2 HISTORY The beginning of EDM came during the Second World War, when two Russian physicists B.R. and N.I. Lazarenko published their study on The Inversion of the Electric Discharge Wear Effect. which related to the application to manufacturing technology of the capacity of electrical discharges, under controlled distribution, to remove metal. EDM was being used at that time to remove broken taps and drills. The early “Tap- Busters” disintegrated taps with hand fed electrodes, burning a hole in the center of the tap or drill, leaving the remaining fragments that could be picked out. This saved workpieces and very expensive parts from being scrapped and having to be made over again. This process opened the birth of Vertical EDM, also called: Sinker, Conventional, Ram, Plunge or Diesinker EDM’s.