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There is a new development from Makino’s R&D engineers that I would like to tell you a little about.  Its called “Pico Precision Wire Guide System”.  This a new offering on SP and Uj series machines, and can be ordered from the factory or retrofitted to existing installed machines.  The Pico Guide System was designed to provide reliable, flawless threading of small holes in a tight matrix, or for highly accurate cutting of variable taper lands for stamping tooling.  This allows Makino to offer the only real “choice” in wire guide systems on a WEDM.  We will still offer, and believe that our standard Split V-Guide system is best for about 80% of WEDM work today, and will still offer this tried and true system. 

What kind of wire guide system do you use, and what problems have you had? Post comments or email me at jkiszonas@makino.com.