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Anyone who believes the American dream is just a fairy tale created to keep the citizenry happy, should talk to George Marcinkowski, founder and president of Calmax Machining, Inc.-a Santa Clara, job shop specializing in production of machined parts and assemblies for a broad segment of the Silicon Valley's...

The objective of the demonstration is to show that the MCD1816 has the ability of Flush Fine cutting in 50 Rc hardness material. Super Geometric Intelligence allows up to 125 ipmfeedrates following intricate contours. The Jet 50 spindle, turning at 15,000 rpm, keeps chip load down.

A Makino U32j with 0.003-inch diameter wire was used to burn 0.005-inch holes into a graphite electrode. Upon completion, the electrode was attached to the spindle of a Makino EDGE2 and used to produce the final platinum fluid release components._x000D_ _x000D_ The parts were completed accurately and...

A previously outsourced retainer mold featuring 5,700 holes was machined on an EDGE2 Fine Hole using 0.0120 inch diameter hollow, copper pipe electrodes. Each hole required a 0.0132 inch finished hole diameter with a tolerance of ±0.0002 inch. _x000D_ _x000D_ The EDGE2 Fine Hole's precision...

NURBS is not a new term. It is an acronym for "Non-Uniform Rational B Spline" and is basically an accurate way to define a free-form curve. CAD-CAM systems have used NURBS for many years to define curves.