Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is a machining process that discharges electric sparks from two electrodes on a metal sheet to detach the desired shape. Also called spark machining, it employs ...

Just as practical nuclear fusion has been “only 20 years away” for the last 80 years or so, the promise of electrical discharge machining (EDM) in the home shop seems to always be just around the ...

If you’ve ever short-circuited a car battery, you’ve seen the pitting and damage a few sparks can cause. Smart minds realised that controlled sparks could erode metal very accurately, in a process now ...

GF MACHINING SOLUTIONS developed its next-generation CUT S 400 Dedicated wire electrical discharge machine (EDM) to increase flexibility and reduce maintenance in the production aerospace jet-engine ...

Gabe Lipscomb didn't plan a career in education. He once told his high school geometry teacher that the class was stupid and that he would never use any of what he learned there. "Then I went and ...