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Project Logs / Re: Titivating a Wire EDM Machine
« Last post by pycoed on Today at 04:01:03 AM »Are two headed coin?s making a comeback?
Rumour has it that a keffiyeh rather than a file is the easiest way out of jail these days
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Rumour has it that a keffiyeh rather than a file is the easiest way out of jail these days
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Project Logs / Re: Titivating a Wire EDM Machine
« Last post by tom osselton on November 05, 2025, 04:03:09 PM »Are two headed coin?s making a comeback?
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Project Logs / Re: Titivating a Wire EDM Machine
« Last post by awemawson on November 05, 2025, 12:50:45 PM »And you will of course send me a cake with an enclosed file to my new abode in Wormwood Scrubs !
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Project Logs / Re: Titivating a Wire EDM Machine
« Last post by AdeV on November 05, 2025, 08:27:29 AM »I was hoping to see you cut it along another axis and separate the heads from the tails.
OK, that's something you now have to do Andrew!
Not once, but twice - then glue the two halves together to get a penny with two heads (or two tails, your choice!). Then see if you can get it into general circulation!
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Project Logs / Re: Titivating a Wire EDM Machine
« Last post by awemawson on November 05, 2025, 08:07:45 AM »Russell yes I did consider that but the clamping set up gets a bit hairy !
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Project Logs / Re: Titivating a Wire EDM Machine
« Last post by RussellT on November 05, 2025, 06:01:04 AM »Nice to see you doing something in the workshop Andrew. I was hoping to see you cut it along another axis and separate the heads from the tails.
Russell
Russell
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Project Logs / Re: Titivating a Wire EDM Machine
« Last post by awemawson on November 04, 2025, 03:11:19 PM »Well it's been an awfully long time but I've got to play with the Wire EDM machine over the last few days.
Grand daughter has just gone off to University and for some strange reason asked if 'any of those machines in your workshop could cut a penny in two' Well not my place to reason why so initially I just used a pair of stout tin snips with one arm clamped in the vice. Yes it cut, but one half shot off into the deep recesses of the workshop and the other was rather distorted.
So I thought - really this is a job for the Fanuc Tapecut wire EDM machine. I've not used it for literally several years but lets see what happens. Powered up a treat, even had several programs still stored in its bubble memory, but after a few power on / offs it reported a memory fault requiring a wipe of the contents. No matter I need to load a simple cut off program anyway.
Program generated in Featurecam - now how the devil does the load sequence work
Manual was rather vague - I'd done it many times before but that was about five years ago.
In the end to get the job done I hand keyed it in at the control panel and OK we have two halves of a penny as requested. But that's NOT good enough - so I spent absolutely ages going round the houses, to find eventually that the USB to multiple Com port adapter on my workshop PC at some time over the years had reconfigured itself so what was Com3 had become Com4 and vice-versa. OK sort that out and hoo ray I can upload code - it only took three days to sort it out!
Right - lets get a bit more adventurous and cut coins with curved lines - so I did !
Here is a rather long and boring video of cutting in process
https://youtu.be/bkKTLsISxFY
Grand daughter has just gone off to University and for some strange reason asked if 'any of those machines in your workshop could cut a penny in two' Well not my place to reason why so initially I just used a pair of stout tin snips with one arm clamped in the vice. Yes it cut, but one half shot off into the deep recesses of the workshop and the other was rather distorted.
So I thought - really this is a job for the Fanuc Tapecut wire EDM machine. I've not used it for literally several years but lets see what happens. Powered up a treat, even had several programs still stored in its bubble memory, but after a few power on / offs it reported a memory fault requiring a wipe of the contents. No matter I need to load a simple cut off program anyway.
Program generated in Featurecam - now how the devil does the load sequence work
Manual was rather vague - I'd done it many times before but that was about five years ago.In the end to get the job done I hand keyed it in at the control panel and OK we have two halves of a penny as requested. But that's NOT good enough - so I spent absolutely ages going round the houses, to find eventually that the USB to multiple Com port adapter on my workshop PC at some time over the years had reconfigured itself so what was Com3 had become Com4 and vice-versa. OK sort that out and hoo ray I can upload code - it only took three days to sort it out!
Right - lets get a bit more adventurous and cut coins with curved lines - so I did !
Here is a rather long and boring video of cutting in process
https://youtu.be/bkKTLsISxFY
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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on November 01, 2025, 12:20:16 PM »Hi Folks,
Been a bit preoccupied this week with getting my new tenant into the house and getting all the work finished! Our attempts with the ladder failed to get high enough to fit the chimney cowl, so we have passed that over to Harlands, our local builders and joiners as they have access platforms, and a Telehandler with a man bucket! I spent a morning going round the hardware shops and builders merchants trying to find one, no luck, and ended upat the woodburner shop at Foxholes who managed to fid one! So, some antique repairs , a cross vice free off and set up, and some general tinkering and waffling! Enjoy!
Phil, Halloween has come and gone in East Yorkshire!
https://youtu.be/yJ_Tmoa0X5g
Been a bit preoccupied this week with getting my new tenant into the house and getting all the work finished! Our attempts with the ladder failed to get high enough to fit the chimney cowl, so we have passed that over to Harlands, our local builders and joiners as they have access platforms, and a Telehandler with a man bucket! I spent a morning going round the hardware shops and builders merchants trying to find one, no luck, and ended upat the woodburner shop at Foxholes who managed to fid one! So, some antique repairs , a cross vice free off and set up, and some general tinkering and waffling! Enjoy!
Phil, Halloween has come and gone in East Yorkshire!
https://youtu.be/yJ_Tmoa0X5g
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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on November 01, 2025, 12:19:07 PM »No Andrew I didn't! the first two covid jabs made me so ill I swore off them. Didn't get the flu jab this year either! I know I should but..................
Phil
Phil
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Announcements & Issues / Site access this weekend
« Last post by Brass_Machine on October 31, 2025, 11:27:59 AM »Hi all,
I will be working on the site this weekend. Not sure when yet, but the might be a period where the board will be unavailable.
Eric
I will be working on the site this weekend. Not sure when yet, but the might be a period where the board will be unavailable.
Eric