Homebrew PCBs

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve" <alienrelics@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 4:15 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: cards with fingers


> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, David Griffith <dgriffi@...> wrote:
>>
>> 
>> I'm pondering making a homebrew S100 card or two.  Does anyone here have
>> experience in making cards with connection fingers?  Is tinplating as
>> applied by, say, solder paste, okay?  I know there are gold-plating kits
>> for this purpose out there, but it's prohibitively expensive.
> 
> If you use lead solder, that isn't technically tinning, is it?

Of course it is! One 'tins' wire or a terminal using a soldering iron.

Leon