On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Rob roomberg@... [Homebrew_PCBs] <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
We were having some banter earlier this month about how to get ..what to use... for vias through
a two sided PCB.
I use (indeed, I sell locally) 0.8mm rivets, but they have heads, tin the pads, insert rivet, squish the tail, solder both sides ( not the best example, but anyway https://imgur.com/a/uH4Jy )
My point was what's the difference, for a via at least, of using a brass/copper tube of 0.x mm and just a couple mm length of solid copper wire 0.x mm diameter, same thing really isn't it.
If you want to insert component legs through for a diy plated through hole rather than just a diy via then that's true of course, but that's not something I';ve had to do myself, I just solder the component leg on both top and bottom side when necessary
NB: I've been looking around to try and get 0.5mm rivets, but I have not found a (chinese) supplier of them in bulk.