On Oct 24, 21:48, Marvin wrote:
> Richard Erlacher wrote:
> > Has any of you ever encountered an approach to this that could be
managed in
> > the home environment with equipment costing, nominally, less that a
k-buck
> > or two and achieving nominally 10-mil traces with 8-10 mil separation
or
> > anything close to that? How about a dry-film solder mask?
> Doing the process at home can be done with a minimum of equipment if
service
> shops are used for parts of the process. A small copper plating tank,
> tin-lead tank, and peroxide-sulfuric etchant along with fusing oil and
flux
> can be set up at home for probably a couple hundred dollars. To set up a
> fairly complete shop including drilling and imaging would probably cost
> between 2K and 3K. This would provide the capabilities of producing
> reasonably high quality boards. Oh, did I forget to mention getting the
> experience to know how to do it :)?
I've never done the full process Marvin describes at home, but there's a
commercial website that has quite a lot of useful information. Eniough to
encourag me to try it "one day":
http://www.thinktink.com/
(If you're like me, and keep that Java(script) stuff turned off, turn it on
for this site, as the menus need it).
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Mon Oct 25 1999 - 16:27:17 BST