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CNC WEST February/March 2018 www.CNC-West.com 23 A lot of tribal knowledge is needed with sinker EDMs. Anyone can run it, but to be a truly skilled operator it takes a lot of experience. Wire Tech’s operators are involved in every step of the process. They do their own programming and work closely with the milling department on the manufacturing of the needed electrodes. Wire Tech added sinker EDMs in the mid 90’s. They have 5 GF Agie Charmilles sink- ers and 8 wire EDM machines.