Homebrew PCBs

The stock pads are meant for throughhole plated boards. The plating
holds two fairly small restrings together reasonably well. For single
sided they are way too small. It does not matter if the single sided
boards are homemade or commercial, the copper comes already adhered to
the substrate and pull-off force is exactly identical.
(Soldermask always has a little gap to the copper and is not relevant for this).

ST

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:10 AM, sailingto <sailingtoo@...> wrote:
> Doesn't matter which program used for the layout, most of them do have pretty small pads.  These small pads are ok for a commercial board with solder mask, but for a home etched board I find it's better to use larger pads.