'Zero Tolerance Machining' with the Wire EDM, Making a Puzzle Cube - Part 2 | US Digital 

No, def not. Unless they sell them for a grand a piece. It takes them two hours just to make the one cube.

@@joshandkorinna that's just the cut time. Just think of all the material handling and grinding for finish.

@@skrewup7354 mezmo I think

@@joshandkorinna if I get you one for 200 will u buy it?

@@PHANTOM-vd2sn No thats too much. I'd pay maybe 15 bucks for one. This is why it's not economical to manufacture these and sell them. People aren't going to pay what it costs to manufacture them.

That's what I was thinking too, but as soon as they put up the block with the four pieces marked to be cut it made a lot more sense.🤦‍♂️

if you think about it, you can cut very precise, but not indefinetly thin

This would be very nearly impossible. In order to cut anything you need to remove some material. Even if it's a couple of atoms thin. Meaning that a block of material cut in half even with the most precise and wasteful technique will have less material than it did when it was in one piece.

well that's impossible because the cutting wire that should be used for that must be a lot thinner than a strand of hair which is sure going to be not strong enough to cut steel, I always thought it's separate parts and I'm right

@@Quicksilver_Cookie shears obviously not possible for the metal cube we're seeing here, but in general. A block cut in half can have the same amount of material after the cut.

@@RoadnTech i dont think you can math

@@RoadnTech the cost of the block and wasted material is minimal in comparison to the cost of machine time, the operators wage and the programmers wage as well. This does not even consider the time that it takes to actually prep the stock and square it up before it is even usable by the machinist. The material is hardly the issue with the cost of precision milling of any sort, not just wire edm. Unless you are milling something like titanium or some other costly metal, steel and aluminum is relatively very cheap.

@@RoadnTech “easily” What are your credentials? Because it really seems like you’re talking out of your ass

@Joseph K If you spend more than $250, you're an idiot

@@Crypto-Legend what are you basing that off of?

no it costs a ton of money to make these

I think pleasure is more important than money 😊​@@aperson696

Newer wire machines can hold tolerances of ±0.00002" (twenty millionths!) but it takes something like 7 or 8 passes with progressively lower power settings on the cut.

Make it out of Iridium.

When your nation gets search engines, you'll be able to look up the conversions.