Homebrew PCBs

On Wednesday 28 April 2004 12:45 am, JanRwl@... wrote:
> In a message dated 4/27/2004 8:53:46 PM Central Standard Time,
> rtellason@... writes:
> I wonder if there's any feasibility to using some kind of a CNC setup to do
> wire-wrapping?  Any of you guys have any thoughts on this?
> SOMEwhere, aeons ago, I saw a video of a "professional" WW machine going TO
> it.  It'd strip the end, wrap it at about 3000 RPM, move "least number of
> bends" to next pin, cut, strip, and wrap, and zip to next pin to do.  Musta
> done 3 wires per second.  HORRIBLY-dangerous looking contraption!  But I
> now have NO clue who/what that was.

You had to strip the wires yourself?  Yikes.  That's one of the more 
time-consuming portions of wire-wrapping...

> BUT such a machine is kinda WAY out there in terms of complexity, etc.  If
> built so that such would work reasonably well, I am sure it'd cost at least
> a couple $thousand, NOT counting the computer!

I don't count computers as additional expense,   Got plenty of boards and such 
around here,  I'm sure I could come up with something that would do the job 
if the rest of it were feasible.

The thing is,  people are talking about mechanical component placement in 
here.  If they're through-hole components,  then it's not *that* much more 
complicated,  is it?