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Broken Tap Removal by Metal Disintegration Machine (MDM)

Dick in Wisconsin

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If you've never seen this done, this is pretty interesting:


I've had a couple of people try to explain EDM to me, but I couldn't understand how it worked. Now I understand.

More fixing broken bolts:



Enjoy!
 
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Kracin

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we've got a nice wire EDM at work, tool and die makers use it to make parts for dies. pretty damn nice how nice of an edge it makes and how precise it is.
 

ADSR

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That's awesome! Those guys must make a killing.

If that BMW head was mine, I would have just got some studs and some JB weld. LOL, it's only a valve cover.
 

Kracin

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That's awesome! Those guys must make a killing.

If that BMW head was mine, I would have just got some studs and some JB weld. LOL, it's only a valve cover.

don't know why they paid to get that head fixed... with the kind of damage they caused from not only destroying the bolts in the first place (big *** bolts at that). but they also destroyed any chance of removing them which wouldnt have been that bad to start. i doubt they were going to get the car back together and running either since that requires some common mechanical knowledge as well haha
 

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I'm thinking that some poor soul was bamboozled into buying someone else's hack job
then decided to get fixed properly ,
dunno if I could do the walk of shame by taking that mess into a machine shop
 

Kracin

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I'm thinking that some poor soul was bamboozled into buying someone else's hack job
then decided to get fixed properly ,
dunno if I could do the walk of shame by taking that mess into a machine shop

pretty much, but you know once you walk in with the "i bought this from a guy" story they all think , yeah sure you did buddy. :lol_hitti
 

SilverSS1969

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We have a few EDM hole popper machines at work. Two manual machines (old bridgeports converted to EDM) and two CNC EDMs. One on the CNC even has a 4 axis with two chucks on it.

We do burn taps, drills and bolts out but our biggest reason for them it to burn .020-.040 steam vent holes in out forging press tools.

The shop I worked at before this had an EDM hole popper, EDM sinker (uses a block of carbon with the form on it to burn into a peice of metal) and a few EDM wire machines (has a spool of wire what run vertical to burn forms into metal).
 

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If anyone has any info on my 60's era EDM converted from an old walker turner DP I'd appreciate anything I can find on it. (Manual or schematics, anything) I've always wanted this style radial DP so I jumped on this when it came up for sale locally.



My #1 goal is to convert it back to a drill press which I'll get a lot more use out of. However when time permits I'll be trying to get the EDM functional again as it's capabilities surpass that of the drill press. I'm not sure of the expense involved in running it so I'd use the basic drill press most the time and have the EDM around for the harder metals.

This is what I'm missing to convert back to a DP:



Or I may need the entire head with the quill mechanism:

 
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Kevin54

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On the first video clip @ 7 minutes into it........NEVER grind up on a grinding wheel. What he was going, he may have very well done it that way for years, and has just been lucky. All it takes is a fraction of a second to cause a major disaster, and by that I bean bodily harm.

I fuckkin hate seeing video's like that, someone has never seen something like that work, but then does something to imitate grinding a punch like that.

If he would happen to pull back on the punch, the wheel flips the punch down and runs the other end right through his hand. I've ran small bench grinders to large surface grinders. You never ever grind a part going into the part above centerline like he is showing. You want to be below centerline on the downstroke.

Anyone that has ever ran a surface grinder for any length of time at all and is proficient at it knows you always start on the right if the wheel has a CW rotation. That way a wheel cannot climb on top of a part. The same practice goes all of the way down to a bench grinder or pedestal grinder.

All it would take is one minute piece of the wheel missing on the backside that he didn't see to catch the punch.
 

Kevin54

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don't know why they paid to get that head fixed... with the kind of damage they caused from not only destroying the bolts in the first place (big *** bolts at that). but they also destroyed any chance of removing them which wouldnt have been that bad to start. i doubt they were going to get the car back together and running either since that requires some common mechanical knowledge as well haha

I guarantee you, they paid dearly for that fix. Probably 5 times more than what it should have cost. And it looks to me like someone ran some SAE's in a hole where a metric should have been and bound it up. With 5 holes screwed up, I bet whoever owned the head paid upward of $300 to have it repaired
 

R.Anderson

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There was a auction about a week ago here that had an older cnc edm machine that sold for only 400 bucks and they barely sold it for that from what my brother told me. The auctioneer dragged it out in attempts to get more bids. Wish I went to that one, I would of put several bids on it.
 
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