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<p>Farmer, I concur!!!</p>
<p>Ron Cook, Salix, IA <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/28/2019 9:09 AM, Indiana Robinson
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<div><span class="gmail-st"><em>EDM</em> – Electro Discharge
Machining</span></div>
<div><span class="gmail-st">There is an old writing rule that
says that you shouldn't use an<span class="gmail-st"><em></em>
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.</span></span></div>
<div><span class="gmail-st"><span class="gmail-st">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.</span></span></div>
<div><span class="gmail-st"><span class="gmail-st">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.<br>
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<div><span class="gmail-st"><span class="gmail-st">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information badly out of date...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.<br>
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<div><span class="gmail-st"><span class="gmail-st">And now back
to old tractors. :-)<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 9:03
PM James Peck <<a href="mailto:jamesgpeck@hotmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">jamesgpeck@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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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<p class="MsoNormal">The downside is that the setup may
have only worked in the down direction.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a
href="https://www.makino.com/machine-technology/machines/edm-hole-drilling"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.makino.com/machine-technology/machines/edm-hole-drilling</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>[</b>James] How did your
experiment using an EDM sold only to burn holes in hard
materials work?</p>
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Francis Robinson<br>
aka "farmer"<br>
Central Indiana USA<br>
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