Homebrew PCBs

Can you post pictures of the board?  What trace width and spacing are you
achieving?

 

Jeff

 

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From: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of poofjunior
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 11:14 AM
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Soldering Tricks for Milled Boards

 

  

Hi, all,

Just recently, I had a chance to mill my own PCBs with a script that exports
a toolpath from Eagle Cad to a Modela milling machine. The resulting boards
are gorgeous! Unfortunately, the soldering has become very difficult. 

Because very thin traces are being cut to isolate the actual wire
connections from the ground plane, it's fairly easy to spill some solder
onto the trace and have a hard time cleaning off the resulting bridge. 

I wanted to ask, when milling your own boards from copper-clad board, how do
you control the soldering process? Are their techniques to get the solder to
stay on just the pad that's been isolated from the ground plane? Should I
look for a precise flux pen that will dribble just a teeny bit of flux onto
the pad?

Many thanks, everyone, and I look forward to your input!

Sincerely,

Poofjunior





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