A wire EDM is used primarily for shapes cut out of a flat sheet or plate. With a wire EDM machine, if a hole needs to be created, an initial hole must first be drilled in the material. Then the wire can be fed through the hole to complete the machining. Sinker (probe) EDMs are generally used for complex geometries where "line of sight" is not thru/straight or very small pieces where conventional milling is not practical or very difficult due to the hardness of the material-such as cast and heat treated tooling. Probe EDM can cut a hole into the part without having a hole pre-drilled for the electrode.

Below you will see a few examples of our Wire EDM.