AGMantz
Aluminum
- Joined
- Jan 13, 2022
Hey there everyone, this is a two part question. First some general knowledge, I've just started WEDM about two months and it's my first job in the manufacturing industry so I'm very inexperienced with just about everything(so go easy on me
). I took over this job after our last WEDM guy was let go. I was basically just tossed into this job with no experience other than a 3 day training crash course at Mitsubishi and another 3 day course online with ESPRIT. Overall it's not going too bad I still make plenty of mistakes but I'm learning a lot from this forum so thank you all for all the great information its been a huge help on this new journey of mine!
Now to the problem...
We have 2 Mits MV4800 WEDM's. It became very apparent to me right away that our previous wire guy was not much of a cleaner, the machines were riddled with scraps of metal from previous jobs he did and the amount of grime and gunk that has built up over months I assume of him never cleaning the machines is enough to make anyone who has seen a clean WEDM squirm at the sight of ours(almost 1/2 an inch of crap built up in some areas
). I've seen plenty of posts on here about how to maintain/keep the machine clean but I haven't seen much about how to clean a super dirty machine(granted I'm sure 99% of you don't let your machine get even close to this dirty). If anyone has any tips or ideas on how to get the machine back to an acceptable quality please let me hear them. I've been going at it with a putty scraper for a few days now when I have time and I'm making progress but it's veryyyy slow progress.
My second problem is I can't seem to get into the top head. I cleaned and gave all the parts in the other machines top and bottom head an ultrasonic bath to get rid of all the dirt and grime from months of neglect and it threads much better now. The top head on the other machine however will just NOT come off. The ring that surrounds the flush cup seems to be stuck or jammed. The other machine just twisted right off, but this one no matter how much elbow grease or different tools I use I just can't seem to get it off. If anyone has any tips for getting this ring off it'd be a huge help.
-AGMantz(srry for the long post)

Now to the problem...
We have 2 Mits MV4800 WEDM's. It became very apparent to me right away that our previous wire guy was not much of a cleaner, the machines were riddled with scraps of metal from previous jobs he did and the amount of grime and gunk that has built up over months I assume of him never cleaning the machines is enough to make anyone who has seen a clean WEDM squirm at the sight of ours(almost 1/2 an inch of crap built up in some areas

My second problem is I can't seem to get into the top head. I cleaned and gave all the parts in the other machines top and bottom head an ultrasonic bath to get rid of all the dirt and grime from months of neglect and it threads much better now. The top head on the other machine however will just NOT come off. The ring that surrounds the flush cup seems to be stuck or jammed. The other machine just twisted right off, but this one no matter how much elbow grease or different tools I use I just can't seem to get it off. If anyone has any tips for getting this ring off it'd be a huge help.
-AGMantz(srry for the long post)