Excetek ED600C

The Excetek ED600C is where the ED die sinking series stops being a self-contained machine and becomes a machine plus a tank. X travel is 650 mm (25.6 in), Z travel 400 mm (15.7 in), and the work table measures 1,000 x 600 mm (39.4 x 23.6 in), with a listed maximum workpiece of 1,290 x 700 mm (50.8 x 27.6 in).

On the ED400C below it, the oil filter tank is built in and holds 450 L. The ED600C has a 1,200 L tank that stands separately: 2,020 x 530 x 1,060 mm (79.5 x 20.9 x 41.7 in), 350 kg (772 lb) empty, with four paper filters. That is a long, thin unit, and its position beside the machine should be settled on the layout drawing. The complete outside dimensions, which Excetek states with body, travel, tank and generator together, are 2,791 x 2,669 x 2,666 mm (109.9 x 105.1 x 105.0 in). Machine weight is 3,900 kg (8,598 lb).

The table grows faster than the head does. Maximum electrode weight stays at 50 kg (110 lb), the same as on the ED400C and the ED30C, so the ED600C is a machine for bigger workpieces more than for bigger electrodes. A shop that needs to hang heavy graphite should look at the ED600C CE, listed at 150 kg (331 lb), or the ED800C at 350 kg (772 lb).

Two figures a buyer will want, Y travel and workpiece weight, should be confirmed with Excetek for this model before a job is planned around them. For the series as a whole the catalogue describes a column structure with a floor-mounting design, a Z axis counterweight, roller type linear guide ways and a work table hardened to HRC50, with G-code auto-programming and a vertical front door.