Complex, tight-radius EDM work expands horizons for tool and die shop. (electric-discharge machining; Horizon Tool and Die Inc.) (Better Production) Modern Machine Shop | May 1, 1992 | COPYRIGHT 1992 Gardner Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

When Horizon Tool & Die, Inc. opened its doors for business in 1987, the first EDM job that owners Pete and Dan Badovinac took on gave a good indication of the type of work the Schaumburg, Illinois shop was interested in doing. The job at hand? A carbide die that required 0.006" wide walls that would be capable of stamping 0.001-inch thick beryllium copper to be used as webbed fusible links.

At the time, they had just one EDM machine - a used, 1981 AgieCut DEM-315 (Agie USA, 839 S. Rohlwing Road, Addison,IL 60101). "But," Dan Badovinac says "we were completely ...

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