Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] milling circuit boards

Those services aren't free or even cheap compared to taking a $4 piece of board and milling it yourself. They usually have a 3 board minumum and by the time they get through with their games, it's close to $200 for one design. Someone who is experimenting with different designs, that could get expensive.

Speaking of, does anyone have a small board layout that can be ran with like a 1/8" endmill? If so and wouldn't mind sharing it, please email to rogersmach@...

Something in Bobcad or DXF format, doesn't matter what it is.

Thanks, Ron

Dennis Schmitz <denschmitz@...> wrote:
Sorry, this isn't an answer, but another question. I think I've read
posts from 2 or 3 people milling circuit boards, or trying to. What's
the cost breakdown? Is it really and truly cheaper to make these
boards after you factor in your time and amortize your equipment?

You can get some pretty good prototype quantity boards from internet
outfits like PCB123 now for very cheap, and if you're running
production, there are plenty of board shops out there all undercutting
each other. Check out the back section of any of the EE mags for a
long list of them.

Even 10 years ago "breadboard" meant giving a hand-drawn circuit to a
tech to solder together with perfboard. Today it means doing a quickie
in Eagle and sending it out to an overnight proto house. It's cheaper
than paying the tech.

So where's the upside? Why bother building a machine for it? (serious
question, not sniping)

This is probably off topic, so feel free to email me directly.

TIP: you always pay for one panel, so lay-up several different ones in
the gerbers. If you have space, there are a bunch of free patterns for
proto-boards available to fill it in.

On 10/5/06, wdavis364 <wdavis@...> wrote:
> Shopping around for a router, Some router have 1/4 collets and some
> have 1/4 collets and 1/8 collets. Not knowing much about this, what
> size collet will I would most likely to be using in milling circuit
> boards. Will 1/4 collets handle the very small size drill bits(1/32)?
> Thanks for any advice on this.
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