Re: circuit board makers

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>

It seems none of the "upload your artwork at incredible prices" prototype
places cut boards to size unless it's a "single pass" of some routing bit. I
don't have or intend to buy a sander, magic jig, milling machine,
guillotine, sheet metal shears or anything to cut up boards. I don't know
anybody who has this stuff either.

Maybe somebody on this list can take artwork and chop and drill some boards
for me using some fantastic machinery they have. As long as there is no
trace of handmadeness, all is ok. Contact me off-list if you can do this.

KEN


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Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: circuit board makers


 > Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
 >
 > Hi Ken,
 >
 > I think most circuit board shops will cut the board for you too...
 >
 > "I" just draw a line and cut outside it with a hacksaw and then use a
 > little palm sander to bring in the edge.  The belt sander can "fix"
 > anything too.    I just clamp the board over the edge of the bench and
 > clamp it down with wood and C-clamps.  Works perfectly well for me.  It
 > does make fiberglass dust which may bother some people...  Never bothered
 > me in the least.
 >
 > If you really need a "perfect" cut, if the pizza cutter at the board shop
 > just is not there, if water jet is just too messy...   Find a pal with a
 > milling machine.  A 3/16 cobalt cutter and a mill would make it a trivial
 > task.  Perfectly straight and like 0.001 inch tolerances then ;-))  Even a
 > real for pay machine shop would probably cut it for "real cheap".  Two
 > minutes setup, two minutes cut, two minute to shop vac...  If you can
 > provide say 0.200 inch holes and other alighning marks to speed setup
 > (machinist like that ;-)) and screw it to a wood block (make it easy to
 > mount in the mill vise) then set up and cutting is like 60 seconds ;-))
If
 > you tell them it is for a Tesla coil and the details of what you are
doing,
 > they will probably forget to charge you ;-))
 >
 > You could make a real good home mill with any small mill cutter, an cheap
 > X-Y "cross" vise from Harbor Freight or Sears, and any drill press that
 > could easily chop a PC board to remarkable tolerances.  However, your 10
 > inch dimension is a little big for a little mill without remounting.
 >
 > Any milling machine and some thought about how to mount the PC board in it
 > should give you perfect cuts and low cost...  Of course, if you solidly
 > mount the boards all on top of each other, a mill can do like 10 boards at
 > one time...
 >
 > So, I am not sure what you are up to or need there, but it sounds like a 5
 > minute milling machine task worst case...
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 >          Terry
 >
 >
 > At 10:23 PM 11/20/2002 -0600, you wrote:
 > >Are there any places like pcb123-dot-com or whatever that will CUT up yout
 > >finished boards to the size you want? I"m looking for some boards around
2"
 > >x 10" or so.
 > >
 > >I'm not going to pay to have a circuit board made if  I have to take a
hack
 > >saw to it to give it the "finishing touches." I can make awful, distorted
 > >crooked boards at home already, and want to do nothing but solder parts
to a
 > >proerly made board.
 > >
 > >KEN
 >
 >
 >
 >