On 29/10/2025 8:39 am, Ar wrote:
We know that F1 teams over the years have gone through lots of fancy
processes and materials to cut the weight of parts and still be
strong. I've been looking on Youtube and found a process called
"electric discharge machining", which gives tolerances of the
thickness of a thin wire.
Would an F1 team use such machines to give effectively zero
tolerance cutting for mechanical parts? Looking at it it is
amazingly accurate cutting, far better than a CNC milling machine,
but massively slower.
EDM has been around for quite a while now and I dare say that if it
brings a benefit to anything an F1 team is doing they'll certainly be
using it.
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