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Hi Tom
Electro Erosion (spark erosion) is actually EDM "Electrical Discharge Machining" which I have been using of and on for the last 18 years, as not only EDM if for wire cutting but another form where a copper shape is CNC machined and then used in spark errsions against tool steel like you said and rounds or smooth corners and other features or angles that can not be CNC machined in mold tooling which like the wire cutter its the electrical current that does the erosion cutting and not the wire or coppers.
Another method I use pictured is a drilling fine holes with the owner of the EDM workshop and my friend who's name is also Toms that is drilling a fine hole for one of my EDC multi tool design attachments spring.
This system EDM is for very small holes that are not able to be drilled or tool steel that is say 60 HRC and can also not be drilled which is a small hollow copper tube with Electrical Discharge quickly making a hole.
This is used a lot to make a small hole for the fine EDM wire to thread through when cutting a shape or hole into a mold tool for dye castings or plastic injections molds etc.
I use EDM because of the fine detail I need to make attachments to fit 100% to be able to function correctly and can manufacture ideas no one thinks possible which opens many doors for design which I manly target marine products.
This EDM is to expensive in western countries which use more expensive and complicated EDM machinery, but EDM in China is a simple and effective EDM are used which are dime a dozen because of the huge amount of mold tooling made for industries in the USA, EU, NZ, AU etc. including their own industry.
How's things in NZ, are you still boating and camping while painting the wilderness on the river delta near Port Waikato.

 

A friend of mine used to do that sort of work 20 odd years ago.
I take a very relaxed approach to most things these days and need comfy holiday accommodation and am having some time at Raglan next week but my camping and boating was always very comfortable even took our hot water bottles with us,nothing like a good nights sleep to help enjoy the out doors.

Landscape painting and portrait work is in the back ground now and I concentrate on using imaging manipulation software to see how designs would look.
Practical Ground Effect vehicles are my main interest as boats can not go where I want to go (in comfort) and reasonable quiet manner. Of course I am always told "no that won`t work".

I would love some of the wonderful machines and tools now available in my workshop.
You seem to be well occupied with your projects, good wishes.

 

Hi Tom
I have copied and pasted a picture from your gallery you took of Flash and I 20 years ago on the river just up from port Waikato.
Its a good place that's not far from Auckland but remote and well away from the people who say "you can not do that", or "no that won't work"
My two sons have never been to school because I will not have strangers teaching my children "can not do that" or "no that wont work"
They love their freedom.
Thank you for your wishes and best wishes in return

 

Picture I took today as I crossed the small bridge of a man crank starting his diesel outboard motor.

It is great to see simplicity, reliability and affordability.

 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Fat_man.jpg

 

Quote from the book; Freedoms Forge, by Aurthur Herman.

Working overtime, with Maritime Commission technicians helping out and offering advice, Gibbs turned out acres of blueprints for every part of the ship. When he was done, he had created a vessel that looked rather different from its British predecessor. It had one central deckhouse, instead of the usual two fore and aft. It was oil fired, not coal burning (which made it possible to fuel at sea, if necessary), and on its main deck it had solid steel bulwarks instead of the standard chain rails, so that cargo could be crammed onto every square inch of the ship, including planes and tanks and trucks strapped on deck. Gibbs’s Liberty ship was made with as many straight lines as possible, because it would be made from welding rather than rivets. 19 Also to speed the construction, standard wooden interior decks were replaced with steel, although with wooden hatch covers in between. When someone asked why, they got a bleak answer: That way the hatch covers could be used as life rafts if the ship took a U-boat torpedo and sank. Because from the beginning, Gibbs and Land assumed the Liberty ship would be an expendable ship. Many would be sunk; many sailors would be lost. Although manned and conned by civilians, they would be directly in the line of fire. No one expected them to have many return voyages. Partly for that reason, and because speed of construction was key, Gibbs’s design made as few concessions as possible to comfort. There was no electricity or running water for the crew; their rooms and bunks were smaller than standard size. There was cement, not tile, in the toilet spaces, and no mechanical ventilation for the engine and boiler rooms and crew’s quarters. The galley was lit with oil lamps, and there was no fire detection system. 20 These would not be comfortable trips, even by merchant seaman standards. Gibbs’s ship was a seagoing boxcar, able to stow eight thousand tons of material in her hull. She would carry everything from tanks and bombers to copper wire and sugarcane. And she had to be built not only in record time, but in record numbers, in order to keep Britain alive.

 

And a Liberty ship... (as the discussion was 20 pages & a couple of months ago)

 

Did myark invent it.

 

I don't think so. If he had, he would have told us.

 

I think I see invented and made in China on the side of the pontoon.

 

To be successful in business you have to be passionate and persistent always promoting your products and business. In the end it doesn't matter what they think of you, as long as they think of you.

Poida
Oh this is the picture thread, forgot the picture. Do you get the picture!

 

Hollow it out . Add some windows and it will make a unique cruiser. You would not mind if people called it an old bomb.

 

Picture taken out side my apartment balcony today of life hanging by a string

 

It's almost like there's a theme going on..........