Homebrew PCBs

For small boards I have used a solder and iron to
coat all the traces, then heated the entire board
to melt the solder then quickly used a cloth to wipe the 
excess solder off the board.

The "pros" might dip or wave-solder the board
and then use a blast from a "hot air knife" to clean off
the excess....but that's speculation on my part.

I'd like to know how Far Circuits process their boards.

Charlie 

On Thu, 15 Aug 2013 07:14:57 +0100 (BST) David Pickering
<satdaveuk@...> writes:
  
Hi
Thanks for the quick response 
See what I mean by price, if you start using that then just as well buy
ready made PCBs and forget DIY
Lets see if theirs any other ideas out there

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From: James <bitsyboffin@...>
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2013, 7:04
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] silver coating


  
On 15/08/13 18:00, David wrote:
>
> Hi
> Do any of you people here know of a quick and cheap way to tin copper 
> PCB tracks before populating the board?
> With all the modern chemicals around these days theirs bound to 
> something out there
> In the past have used the manufactured stuff which you just put in a 
> bath for a while and job done but its to expensive.
>
There is basically that (tinnit, liquidtin), and a product called "Cool 
Amp" http://www.cool-amp.com/cool_amp.html

I've never found any reasonable "home brew" recipe for such a product.

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