Electrocutting Tungsten Mechanical Cable

Tungsten is a complex mechanical cable material that must undergo a sophisticated cutting process to separate a run of cable into fixed lengths. In most cases, tungsten cable applications, such as surgical robotics, require fittings to be applied to the cable itself, meaning that without properly cutting the cable, applying mating components, such as a ball end fitting, will not fit properly , if at all.
Mechanically cutting tungsten cable, while capable of completing the cut, will leave the individual filaments to fray or come apart. Once this happens, it's like a run in a stocking. The fraying moves up the entire length of tungsten cable and the strand is irreversibly damaged. Likewise, mechanically cut tungsten cable will also likely encounter burrs or mashed ends because the cutting instrument does not possess a means to close or secure the filaments to one another upon completion of the cut.
For these reasons and several others, electrocutting tungsten cable is the proper approach to creating fixed lengths of cable from this fascinating wire rope material. In this immersive video, Craig discusses the way tungsten cable is properly electrocut and provides visual aids to demonstrate what happens to cable when cutting is done poorly.
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[@coreyhelfgott4838]

Excellent Video!

[@carlstahlsavaindustries]

Thank you , Corey. We enjoyed making it!