{"id":660,"date":"2012-07-02T17:03:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T00:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/implant-mechanix.com\/?p=660"},"modified":"2015-10-19T00:04:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T00:04:04","slug":"660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/02\/660\/","title":{"rendered":"Miniature Punch and Die Set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of a pair of miniature punches and dies that could only be produced with the EDM process.<br \/>\nBoth parts are extremely hard toolsteel ; over 60 Rockwell C.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"medium-3 columns\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/edm\/miniature_die_button.jpg\" class=\"swipebox-isotope\" title=\"Miniature punch and die set\"  rel=\"lightbox[660]\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/edm\/miniature_die_button.jpg\" class=\"adjusted_img\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"medium-9 columns\">\n<p>The button is A-2 toolsteel hardened to 60-62 RC and still needs to be finish ground.<br \/>\nThe openings are 0.0209&#8243; wide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"medium-3 columns\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/edm\/miniature_piercing_punch.jpg\" class=\"swipebox-isotope\" title=\"Miniature Punch and Die set\"  rel=\"lightbox[660]\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/edm\/miniature_piercing_punch.jpg\" class=\"adjusted_img\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"medium-9 columns\">\n<p>This is the mating punch.<br \/>\nDie clearance is 0.0013&#8243; total and the punches are 0.156&#8243; long.<br \/>\nThey were cut by wire EDM cutting an electrode, then sinker EDM cutting the punch profiles and orbiting the electrode to bring the punches to size.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of a pair of miniature punches and dies that could only be produced with the EDM process. Both parts are extremely hard toolsteel ; over 60 Rockwell C. The button is A-2 toolsteel hardened to 60-62 RC and still needs to be finish ground. The openings are 0.0209&#8243; wide. This is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edm","category-sinker-edm","category-wire-edm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.implant-mechanix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}