Homebrew PCBs

I use a variety of methods for obtaining my own boards, from sending them out to a fab house (when I need the appearance and finish that a board house can provide) to scratching the copper off with an exacto knife to make isolated pads for quick testing. 

I have a PCB milling machine at work for making prototypes, but that limits me to two layers and I have to solder wires in to make vias (or buying those little eyelets, which I hate.)  I layout evaluation boards for testing new IC's at work, and when we are using them internally, we use our in-house milled boards.  If there is a remote chance that a customer may see the boards, then we send them out to be fabbed. 

The primary reason I joined was to see what was out there, and find out what others are doing.   I would like to build a ferric chloride etch system for home (not  high priority, because I have access to the mill at work and the boss encourages me to do my personal projects on it to improve my own skill with the machine) in the near future, and have learned quite a bit about the various etch methods that are used from this group. 

Peter 



	MartyGrove@...
	05/21/2003 05:23 AM
		 
		 To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com@Internet
		 cc: (bcc: Peter Welty/Americas/NSC)
		 Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Quick introduction and question

Hello to everyone.

 

My name is Marty Grove, and I have been around the printed circuit board
manufacturing business for quite a few years.  I found this group a few
weeks ago when searching Yahoo groups for "printed circuit board".  I have
been lurking ever since, and I'm fascinated at what several of you are
accomplishing!

 

Anyway, one question I do have is: what are you doing with the circuit
boards you are building?  Are they for private use, are you selling them
(kind of like a small-scale quick-turn business), or is this simply a hobby.
to see it's possible to make quality boards using homebrew techniques?  I'm
simply curious about this.

 

Anyway, all the best.  Hope you all don't mind if I sit back and watch all
of your progress.  I might jump in from time to time to ask additional
questions, and who knows. I might start making some boards of my own out in
the garage!

 

Marty

 



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