Homebrew PCBs

On Friday 17 December 2004 03:11 pm, Stefan Trethan wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:50:31 -0500, Roy J. Tellason
>
> <rtellason@...> wrote:
> > What's really sad is that these people seem to act like they think they
> > can get away with that sort of thing.  Like we're all stupid,  or
> > ignorant, or something...
> > The technology that we're using here has empowered consumers way beyond
> > what most of these guys can even dream of,  but I guess it's gonna take a
> > while for them to "get it".

> They will not even care about it, just spam the next one and lie to them.
> You must remember the technology has also empowered them to annoy the hell
> out of us much more efficiently. Believe me, they _have_ got it.

Not so.  There are a lot more of us than there are of them.  It doesn't take 
too much stupidity on their part to get on a list,  or several.  It's called 
"reputation".  I've been in business,  and it takes a certain amount of 
nontrivial effort to acquire one single customer,  and if you're *really* 
good and *really* lucky that customer will refer others to you (we tracked 
where people heard about us and a lot were referred by friends and 
acquaintances).  OTOH,  if somebody is unhappy with someone that they do 
business with,  they'll tell at least 20 other people,  and you'll never see 
them as customers.  A negative impact like that is much harder to overcome...

> Thanks Steve for catching that one, i'm sure none of us does want to do
> business with liars.

Yes,  it was a good catch.

> On another topic, today i did a quick try if it is possible to make a
> sturdy paper-cutter like PCB shear out of simple angle-iron. A quick
> experiment worked surprisingly well. Tools needed only angle
> grinder and power drill. I will write a detailed report when i have
> completed it, then i will also start a proper thread.

I will be looking forward to that -- I've been wondering about how to cut that 
stuff...