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ltj

Jan 1, 1970
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FYI - Found a $50 diamond-blade saw at Lowes (4" Ceramic Tile Wet Saw by
QEP). Wouldn't be worth a darn for tile but cuts PCBs like a champ. Clean,
quiet and fast..
Jake
 
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Baphomet

Jan 1, 1970
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ltj said:
FYI - Found a $50 diamond-blade saw at Lowes (4" Ceramic Tile Wet Saw by
QEP). Wouldn't be worth a darn for tile but cuts PCBs like a champ. Clean,
quiet and fast..
Jake

We used to use your standard run of the mill paper cutter. It worked well
for both phonelic and glass epoxy boards. Keep the blade sharp ;-)
 
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John Larkin

Jan 1, 1970
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We used to use your standard run of the mill paper cutter. It worked well
for both phonelic and glass epoxy boards. Keep the blade sharp ;-)

We used to sneak into the machine shop and use a foot-pedal metal
shear. The machinists hated us for doing this, as epoxy-glass is hell
on shear blades.

John
 
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Ross Mac

Jan 1, 1970
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John Larkin said:
We used to sneak into the machine shop and use a foot-pedal metal
shear. The machinists hated us for doing this, as epoxy-glass is hell
on shear blades.

John
That was the way the board shops used to do it many years ago when there was
a big tolerance. They would just print fablines and shear manually. Hand
shears were pretty popular back then too...Ross
 
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Ross Mac

Jan 1, 1970
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ltj said:
FYI - Found a $50 diamond-blade saw at Lowes (4" Ceramic Tile Wet Saw by
QEP). Wouldn't be worth a darn for tile but cuts PCBs like a champ. Clean,
quiet and fast..
Jake

A router table works great too if you get the correct cutting tools. Tulon,
Tycom and Precision Carbide make special routing burrs designed for circuit
boards. In the olden days they used to make a template with a couple of
tooling pins and hand routed everything. The nice thing about a routing
table is you can do cutouts, where with a saw, everything has to be square
or rectangular....good luck, Ross
 
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