Homebrew PCBs

I saw a website where someone just took a dremel and fiber cutting
wheel, mounted the dremel over the top of the board and then just
pushes the board underneath it. I think he used one of those
flexible extensions so he could get the cutting wheel low enough to
the board and still at 90 degrees to it.

You could do the same with that small air die grinder at Harbor
Freight Tools, it is about the diameter of a marker.

Of course, with a shear you don't have the worries about dust. You
do -not- want to breath the fiberglass and resin dust from cutting
PCBs.

Steve Greenfield

--- Don Papp <donp+srs@...> wrote:
> 
> Hi - I've used a small brake (to bend sheet metal) that was
> hand-operated
> and only about a foot and a half wide.
> 
> I'm wondering if there is an equivalent-sized shear.  Anyone know
> of any
> and where they can be ordered?
> 
> Or, has anyone found a good alternative to a shear?  I'd be using
> it to
> cut circuit boards... maybe someone on the list has a preferred
> method for
> that.
> 
> Shears work great, but are plenty expensive and big and heavy. 
> Not the
> sort of thing you can get for your workbench.
> 
> Don Papp
> http://AEinnovations.com


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