Re: Re: making PC boards

Man, I've gotten lazy in my old age !

There is a local company that for $150.00 CDN ( about $100.00 USD )
will make me a pair of 5" x 8" double sided boards, plated through,
with silkscreen and solder mask on both sides, in 5 days.

The quality is EXTREMELY high - this is not a rot gut operation, but a
company that specializes in prototypes for the local high-tech industry.

The few caveats are no more than 12 different hole sizes, no holes
smaller than 0.020", no traces smaller than 0.008" and NO routing - the
boards are a 5" x 8" rectangle, simple as that.

What I have taken to doing is to layout a main project and if it's
smaller than 5x8, filling in the remainder with other little snippets
of boards, all separated by a long line of 0.030" holes. This allows
me to score along the holes with a sharp knife and then snap the baords
apart.

I'll frequently stuff 5 or 6 little projects on a single 5x8.

Lazy, I admit, but clean and simple.

Alan

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