stripping pcb traces?

[Ross Matheson]

: > No funds to buy new PCB. Not up to making a PCB now, later sure.
: > Stripping with the iron is right here, easy and a small time expenditure.
:
: How much do you think PCB costs ?
:
: geoff

How much do you think "broke" is? ;-)


RS Components costs plus transport would be an absurd expense
I did ask after recommended sources, assuming there might be cheaper.

I just don't have the money to buy new pcb or anything right now, but an
hour or so has got me some practice PTP material to play with.

Yes, perhaps it seems redundant, given that a designed layout could be right
first time, but I see it as free tag/turret board trial/prototype material.

Sorry for the delayed replies - I've been out of town.


Couple of pics posted at

Bizarrely
RdM

 

[Ross Matheson]

I hate the way Free Agent immediately posts an unfinished (or even
draft!) article with a simple accidental bump of Ctrl-N

: Couple of pics posted at
alt.binaries.pictures.radio

Thanks to those who replied with useful suggestions on my 'folly':=)
A moving 100W iron and a sharp blade stripped the traces quite easily.

To those who couldn't understand why I'd bother with such a "bizarre"
idea - apart from the convenience and cheapness of spending half an hour
or so with a hot iron and some steel wool to strip some pcb for some
eyelet tag layout experiments - not having etchant or blank pcb to hand
- you perhaps might not realise what being out of funds is really like!

Remember that this was a large multiple SMPS board, with some areas of
wide traces and few holes, a dumpster dive that I'd already parted out.
The idea was to try out a tube amp custom eyelet tag board layout.
Perhaps a mad-seeming idea, but it cost nothing, and I had the time.

My ISP is likely to cut me off tomorrow as it is ... I'll be back later!

Regards, RdM.

 

[Mikkel C. Simonsen]

: > No funds to buy new PCB. Not up to making a PCB now, later sure.
: > Stripping with the iron is right here, easy and a small time expenditure.
:
: How much do you think PCB costs ?
:
: geoff

How much do you think "broke" is? ;-)

RS Components costs plus transport would be an absurd expense
I did ask after recommended sources, assuming there might be cheaper.

RS is a good place for absurd prices

Most electronics stores sell 0.5 or 1kg packs of raw PCB material. It's
scrap from PCB factories, so the sizes vary.

Best regards,

Mikkel C. Simonsen

 

[Geoff Wood]

: > No funds to buy new PCB. Not up to making a PCB now, later sure.
: > Stripping with the iron is right here, easy and a small time expenditure.
:
: How much do you think PCB costs ?
:
: geoff

How much do you think "broke" is? ;-)

Dunno, but the PCB materials required would cost less than a couple of Big
Macs.


geoff