Most machine shops will use a hole popper machine to create start holes, but those machines have limitations with respect to their electrode sizes and overall quality of the holes they can produce. A ...

B&J Machine and Tool relies on EDM for cutting exotic materials ... Complimenting Kansas's wire EDMs is an HD20 hole popper, also from Charmilles. The shop drills cooling channels in hard materials ...

For example, we see how a wire EDM machine can use a jet of water to help thread the wire through a hole in the part to start a job, and we learn that the wire is constantly moving during the process.

The HybridCell consists of Synova’s MCS 500 Laser MicroJet machine and Makino’s EDBV3 electrical discharge machining (EDM) hole-drilling machine. The Laser MicroJet system is used to cut ...