American 7260 crawler crane

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Hi Steve

Wire edm are great machines and i am lucky enough to have access to them.
Once you start using them you see more and more applications for it.
In fact the profile of the bottom and top flange , the 6 bars and the tooth profile is also done with it.
it could also be done with laser cutting ( less accurate but accurate enough ).
The fact that i used it is simply because i have access to it.
If there was a laser cutting machine available for me i would have use that.
In fact wire edm is a bit over specified for the job.
Don't know how things are in your area but over here there a lot of company's that do laser cutting for real fair prices.
You only need to deliver a decent cad file and wait for 2 weeks or so.
The thing is now i don't have to wait , i do it myself and it cost me nothing ( only time )
But if i had not access to edm i would seriously consider laser cutting for some parts.

Eef