[AT] OT EDM Drilling on old tractor steel and iron.

[Phil Auten]

Thank you, Farmer! I was wondering just what the **** EDM was. Your 
advice is spot on.

Phil in TX.


On 10/28/2019 9:09 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> /EDM/ – Electro Discharge Machining
> There is an old writing rule that says that you shouldn't use an// 
> acronym or an initialism in an article without first giving a 
> definition of the letters involved. After doing that you are then 
> allowed to use the letters abbreviation constantly even to the point 
> of silliness if you want and all is fine...  :-)  Most of us (myself 
> included) break this rule constantly. One example is "PTO" = Power 
> Take Off. That is pretty safe on an old tractor group. If you were 
> writing for a group of pie repair shop owners you should probably 
> pre-define it first.
> I'm not really questioning James use of EDM here, we as a group define 
> the word casual, but I took that link... I hunted all over their site 
> and could not find the initialism defined there. I Googled it and had 
> to look at several returns to find it there. Obviously it is only a 
> household word among a fairly limited group of engineers and 
> machinist. Why would they not define it up front on their site? I 
> suppose some of it is that most sites are created by computer geeks 
> who are not always journalist.
> Back in my data processing days we discovered that the systems analyst 
> guys were horrible at writing instruction manuals for clients to use 
> when preparing data input. They knew their end of it but just couldn't 
> connect with the customers. I became the interface between them and 
> the customers.
> While I'm here I'll insert one of my favorite gripes. "Nothing should 
> go on the internet that is not dated up front. I hate it when I'm 
> researching and can't find a date on an article then find that the 
> article is 25 years old and the information badly out of date... 
> Especially so on medical information that keeps evolving.
> And now back to old tractors.  :-)
>
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> On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 9:03 PM James Peck <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:jamesgpeck at hotmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Probably 25 years or so ago, an article discussed a homebrew low
>     tech EDM a man had built to EDM a broken tap out of the aluminum
>     block or head of a small engine. The article may have appeared in
>     “Home Shop Machinist”.
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>     The downside is that the setup may have only worked in the down
>     direction.
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>     https://www.makino.com/machine-technology/machines/edm-hole-drilling
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>     *[*James] How did your experiment using an EDM sold only to burn
>     holes in hard materials work?
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