NEW PRODUCT coming and EDM milling

Hi Folks,
We are going o be launching our first direct to customer product prestty soon. In this episode I show you how I reserect an old mold and make updates to it with the EDM machine.
In a few weeks you can buy this endmill organizer on out website:
dragonfly-engi...
Thanks!
Dave

[@GregsGarage]

Cool! Good luck with the sales. I've been on Amazon as a seller for 8 years now. There's good and bad, but it's mostly good.

[@DragonflyEngineering]

Thanks for the good luck! I hope to have more products in the near future.

[@craigs5212]

I had a mold designed many years back to make around 200 parts, often wondered what happened to the mold.
On the EDM how much do you have to allow for the tool ware as it burns the harder material in the mold?
Should look into molding boxes for the Gridfinity 3Dprinted storage box system

[@gorak9000]

I bet there'd actually be quite the market for gridfinity stuff. OR the 'not-quite-gridfinity' stuff that Clough42 did for some tooling organization a while ago

[@DragonflyEngineering]

cool, I need to look into that stuff too.

[@DragonflyEngineering]

For copper EDM tool, I only made the one for 24 burns. If it was graphit, then I would need to make ~3 or 4. I also allow a spark gap of ~100um. ( 004') Thanks for watching!

[@jonathanhornell-kennedy4521]

Looks like a deepwell plate, albeit with rather large wells. Usually they have 96 wells

[@gorak9000]

Is it originally for bio/pharma application? That's what it looks like it would be for to me at first guess...

[@DragonflyEngineering]

Sorry, I can't comment on the part's previous life, but thanks for watching!

[@DragonflyEngineering]

Thanks for watching!, yes you could probably use it for that too.

[@johntrevick2060]

You should have "made in USA" on it.

[@DragonflyEngineering]

@@johntrevick2060 yes, I should see if I can fit that in

[@harrisbrancazio3196]

Is there a reason you were conventional milling the copper instead of climb?

[@DragonflyEngineering]

Mastercam lead the way on the tool cut. I think it conventional mills for the lead in cut, then it switches to climb for the actual cut. The lead in cut was a full profile path with a 3 deg plung angle

[@mikeygoertzy4524]

I need to work for yall lol

[@DragonflyEngineering]

Thanks for watching!

[@engineeredaf1920]

Good luck on going d2c! Have you researched the market for these types of holders? You’ll have an advantage on quality, cost & capacity because you’re injection molding, but there are tons of similar products that are 3d printed by various sellers on Etsy and probably amazon as well. Anyway best of luck and can’t wait to see more :-)