Re: Brother HL-630 printer
2004-11-22 by Steve
... Yep, cause then you ll get -me- started. Remember, there s always Freecycle.org. There may be a group in your area. http://www.freecycle.org Steve
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Re: Brother HL-630 printer
2004-11-22 by Phil
... or a business. aside from rediculously expensive toner cartridges, when a service call is required, the cost of the call will quickly outstrip the cost of
RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Brother HL-630 printer
2004-11-22 by Pete Brown (YahooGroups)
It s not just for yuppies :-) For many consumer-level printers, replacing the printer rather than the toner can be very cost-effective. A new toner cartridge
Re: Brother HL-630 printer
2004-11-22 by Dave Mucha
... pick- ... does need a ... Sounds like Yuppies. Toss the printer when it runs out of ink. Good find ! Dave
RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Brother HL-630 printer
2004-11-22 by Leon Heller
... Thanks. Drying it out some more seems to have got it working. It does need a new toner cartridge. Leon
SMD headers (was Re: PCB Driller - aligning holes)
2004-11-22 by Dave Mucha
... dbl ... cutter ... I ... lifting ... lost ... (there s ... be ... Check out the photos section, Daves Drill. the third picture. Imagine if you wanted to
Re: Brother HL-630 printer
2004-11-22 by Dave Mucha
... transferred ... working. ... into ... My experiance with lasers is that there is often a rubber type pick- up wheel that wears and eventually needs
SMD headers (was Re: PCB Driller - aligning holes)
2004-11-21 by Phil
... wrote: ... Maybe this is a stupid question but why whould you want copper that peels off that easily? I have enough trouble trying to AVOID lifting pads
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] SMD headers (was Re: PCB Driller - aligning holes)
2004-11-21 by Stefan Trethan
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:13:34 -0000, Dave Mucha ... Too right there! FR4 seems to hold much better. Maybe it depends on brand too, how
Brother HL-630 printer
2004-11-21 by leon_heller
I ve just rescued an abandoned Brother HL-630 laser printer left on the pavement near where I live. It was complete and even had the printer lead attached. It
SMD headers (was Re: PCB Driller - aligning holes)
2004-11-21 by Dave Mucha
... Its ... came ... Surface area and board material ! When I got my T-TEch machine, it came with a couple sheets of 1oz dbl sided with a very white substrate.
SMD headers (was Re: PCB Driller - aligning holes)
2004-11-21 by Phil
... wrote: ... prefer ... solder it ... The problem with dual row right angle is one row is shorter than the other so cliping is needed
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: PCB Driller - aligning holes
2004-11-21 by Alan King
... The rotation math really isn t that bad, after aligning manually to two holes in opposite corners, but there are many ways to skin the cat. Reference line
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] SMD headers (was Re: PCB Driller - aligning holes)
2004-11-21 by Stefan Trethan
... You want enough size not to pull the pads off anyway. sounds like a good idea. ... Interesting too. But if you need interection between top/bottom i prefer
SMD headers (was Re: PCB Driller - aligning holes)
2004-11-21 by Phil
Hmmm. Good idea! though probably not manufacturable. I get how single row would work. It looks like the dual row stuff is close though there is some slop
Re: PCB Driller - aligning holes
2004-11-20 by cybermace5
... Most of them are pretty small, for mylar cable etc. But with .06 PCB it s easy to put SMD pads on the edge of the board and solder 0.1 single or double
Re: PCB Driller - aligning holes
2004-11-20 by Phil
... wrote: ... This is what I use. With the right lighting, you can do some pretty accurate manual drilling, even with crappy,
Re: PCB Driller - aligning holes
2004-11-20 by gettingalongwouldbenice
... Sounds good on the surface...but to get enough alignment, you d have to have holes about the size of the drill bit. Then you d have to align it as well as
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: PCB Driller - aligning holes
2004-11-20 by Stefan Trethan
Or GN ... Maybe if you wouldn t drill out two corner pins of the socket you could use them instead of wire or a drill to align... probably too thin. Drilling
Re: PCB Driller - aligning holes
2004-11-20 by Dave Mucha
... Two ways. #1, drill one hole and then put a piece of perf board over it and use that as a guide. #2, but a machined pin DIP socket and drill out the holes
Re: PCB Driller - almost ready
2004-11-20 by Dave Mucha
... to ... you ... which ... or ... Just remembered, that John K. (crankorgan.com) has a couple kits that he put together as tests and his use (not exactly
Re: PCB Driller
2004-11-20 by Dave Mucha
... to ... you ... which ... or ... Depends on what you want to do. CNC ? check out crankorgan.com manual ? considder a table with a dremel and a pair of
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: TONER MELTING POINT ??
2004-11-20 by Thomas
where would we all be with out the all those domestic Gooooodies from the Kitchen and laundry ? yeh spose it is kinda like the Waffle Iron ! Thomas ... From:
Re: TONER MELTING POINT ??
2004-11-20 by ballendo
... Thomas, Hmmm, this sounds like a waffle iron... (Some older models had/have flat plates on the reverse of the waffled side. Chack out thrift stores; they
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: TONER MELTING POINT ??
2004-11-20 by Thomas
Thanks for the replies, the reason I ask is the other day I was doing a PCB and after the soak in the water I noticed that the Toner was still Powdery looking
Re: TONER MELTING POINT ??
2004-11-20 by James Newton
... I always pre-heat the PCB, face down, on a hot plate at 350F (~180C) before doing the transfer and I ve found I don t really need a hot iron if I get the
Re: TONER MELTING POINT ??
2004-11-19 by gettingalongwouldbenice
... According to the manual for the HP4L, the fuser is 180C. But the specs on the media call out 200C for 0.1 seconds. This is a relatively short time relative
Re: TONER MELTING POINT ??
2004-11-19 by Phil
and different toners have different fusing points. ... 200 C
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] TONER MELTING POINT ??
2004-11-19 by Stefan Trethan
... Probably not, as my fuser has 160C. But somewhere there , yes. ST
TONER MELTING POINT ??
2004-11-19 by Thomas
would I be correct in saying that Toner generaly melts at around 200 C /392 F ? Thanks Thomas [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] OT Panel Mount WaterProof PB Membrane SW
2004-11-18 by Thomas
Yes so I see, lots of stuff with big Holes ... hmmm not sexy !! a nice Tactile switch with a membrane type of thing .... I spotted some but their kind of
Re: PCB Driller
2004-11-18 by crankorgan
I am milling boards. My artwork is in DXF format. It sounds like you are doing something else. The Think & Tinker 60 degree can mill and produce starter
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: PCB Driller
2004-11-18 by Dave VanHorn
... Ok, I was going to define this as a pad, with a small center hole, but I don t know what size to use, so that it dosen t dissapear. Then I would just not
Re: PCB Driller
2004-11-18 by crankorgan
With the snap grid on I click twice in the center of the pad. It is recorded as a location. During milling you get a starting diviot. The diviot is tiny.
RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] OT Panel Mount WaterProof PB Membrane SW
2004-11-18 by Leon Heller
... Waterproof switches conforming to IP68 tend to be quite large, like the Bulgin SX0904. Leon
OT Panel Mount WaterProof PB Membrane SW
2004-11-18 by Thomas
Excuse me Gents I am looking for small sexy water proof Momentry NO PushButton switch to mount alongside a LCD Display, a 4 Button Membrane that secures to the
Re: Drilling machine runout
2004-11-18 by crankorgan
Earl, Older chucks were made better. I bought a Jacob chuck at Sears years ago. It was pittyful. I took it back and exchanged it for one sitting in the back of
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: PCB Driller
2004-11-18 by Dave VanHorn
... What size hole do you use for this? I had some prototyping boards once, that did this. 100 mil grid of pads, each pad had a tiny hole in the center for
Drilling machine runout
2004-11-18 by Earl T. Hackett, Jr.
A previous post compared a Foredom handpiece and a Dremel for runout - a serious consideration when using solid carbide bits. They were 0.006 and 0.003
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: PCB Driller
2004-11-18 by JanRwl@AOL.COM
Think 3-phase 400 Hz. quill-motor (this one is a tiny 95 W. 400 Hz. 115 VAC aircraft instrument motor powered by a home-brew lashup (I do my own
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Laminator
2004-11-18 by Stefan Trethan
... chicken. grill. motor. is all i say. nicely geared and right speed for 1 pass. and cheap too. ST
Re: PCB Driller
2004-11-18 by Phil
... I wish it were totally true! Using SMDs, I can significantly reduce my hole count but headers/power connections/vias all conspire against me. Vias really
Re: PCB Driller
2004-11-18 by crankorgan
I mill my circuit boards. After making my outline artwork I go back and put a dot in the center of each pad. During milling the dot becomes a starter hole. I
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: PCB Driller
2004-11-18 by Earl T. Hackett, Jr.
One of the primary considerations of a tool is that it uses collets. Any chuck like a Jacobs introduces a few thou of runout. I d like to find a set of
Board surface roughness
2004-11-18 by gettingalongwouldbenice
I ve run into another snag with electrostatic toner transfer. For fine lines, you want thin copper. But the thin copper takes on the texture of the underlying
Re: PCB Driller
2004-11-18 by gettingalongwouldbenice
How do you get the holes in the right place? I tried using a manual dremel press. For something like a 40-pin dip header...the pads are tiny so you have to be
Re: PCB Driller
2004-11-18 by crankorgan
Earl, I own several Dremel MultiPros. I bought a Foredom Number 30 handpiece thinking it was better. If you don t overtighten the collet of the Dremel it has
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: PCB Driller
2004-11-18 by Earl T. Hackett, Jr.
Drilling PCBs is a problem. Right now I m tending toward using my Foredom handpiece in a drill press attachment with an XY table. The boards I m building are
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: PCB Driller
2004-11-17 by Kev Pearce (kevp.com)
I recently bought a new Dremel press and the picture on the box shows the usual hole in the centre of the base where the drill bit goes through the base when
Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] PCB Driller
2004-11-17 by Kev Pearce (kevp.com)
http://www.milinst.com/robotics/robotics.htm#axis Gets you a pc driven cnc pcb driller for 189 GBP in DIY kit form. You don t need to know cnc as the software