Making pcbs

Hi everyone,

This is my first discussion but I would like to see what the consensus is using the knowledge and experience of all that have manufactured their own boards using "home brew" techniques.

In in your opinion, what is the best or perhaps economical and least fiddly of the methods for producing pcb boards via DIY?

Thanks in advance

Terry

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michaelkellett over 11 years ago +1

As far as I know there is no convenient or free legal way of disposing of the waste products from etching copper from boards. In my youth (alas distant, early 1970s) I poured it down the drain but I understand…
D_Hersey over 11 years ago in reply to michaelkellett +1

I have a set-up in my garage. Agitated ferric-chloride bath, tin plating, wet saw, ventilated drill press, xytable. I have a thermal press that directly transfers stencils from a laser-printer. Haven't…
johnbeetem over 11 years ago in reply to D_Hersey +1

Don Hersey wrote: Another technique is to buy generic PCBs and modify them. The 'op-amp evaluation boards' from the few remaining linear players are better than I can make. Ebay ones from China for…

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D_Hersey over 11 years ago

I use press'n'peel blue. If you buy it in bulk it is cheaper. You can tweak by messing with the printer settings.

If you look on eBay or Futurlec, The Electronic Components and Semiconductor Superstore you can find really, really cheap PCB fab services, just sayin'.
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terrydark over 11 years ago in reply to D_Hersey

Futurelec are cheap, Don.

I also had a look on eBay and they are cheaper. I'll send off a design of a past project to Futurelec, I think, and see how they go.

In the mean time, I want to investigate DIY to its fullest (or at least as far as I can afford!)

A cheap place for the Press 'n' Peel would be ...?

Regards

Terry
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terrydark over 11 years ago in reply to D_Hersey

Futurelec are cheap, Don.

I also had a look on eBay and they are cheaper. I'll send off a design of a past project to Futurelec, I think, and see how they go.

In the mean time, I want to investigate DIY to its fullest (or at least as far as I can afford!)

A cheap place for the Press 'n' Peel would be ...?

Regards

Terry
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