Homebrew PCBs

Hi Markus,

Tymm has made an Instructible on this at
http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-stencils-for-solder-paste-at-home/

Personally, I have used a brass stencil & rubber squeegee to put solderpaste
onto panels of boards, in my garage. I then reflowed in a toaster oven.
Someone else made the brass stencil for me, though.

By the way, I also made built a home made computer controlled C02 laser
cutter in my garage too. I just used it for cutting shapes in sheet acrylic,
but I often thought about trying to make Solderpaste stencils with it too...

Kind regards,
Anthony Burch http://www.SuperSolderingSecrets.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Markus Zingg
Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2008 12:16 AM
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Homebrew stencils anyone?

Hi group

I wonder if members of this group do their own stencils to apply solder 
paste for subsequent reflow? Any lowcost methods? I mean not everbody 
owns a laser cutter (or is having easy acess to one).

TIA

Markus