Homebrew PCBs

There's a source of M. G. Chemicals single and double-sided copper clad
FR4 material in Australia, including 0.8mm double-sided material.

I recently bought some items from a company I was only dimly aware of:

  http://mektronics.com.au

I was looking for an obscure but highly useful lubricant I know as
"Super Lube ", a name it shares with many other products.  This is a
"synthetic" lubricant with PTFE (Teflon) in a 7ml pack.  My last pack, I
recall, was made by Loctite, but this one 51010 is made by Synco:

  http://www.super-lube.com

Mektronic's web-shop has ridiculously long URLs which I won't repeat here.

I also found some "1mm" (actually 0.8mm) AKA "1/32 inch" double-sided
copper clad FR4 PCB material.  This is from M.G. Chemicals in the USA.
I bought the 300 x 300mm size.   This is MG591 with "1 ounce" copper:


http://www.mgchemicals.com/products/prototyping-and-circuit-repair/copper-clad-boards/500-series/

These and other PCB boards, some of them already coated with what I
assume is a positive photoresist, are in the "Prototyping" section.

They have huge range of soldering tools and supplies and general
electronic and mechanical tools.

I couldn't use their shopping cart system at all with Firefox or Google
Chrome.  When I was able to add items to it with MSIE, attempting to
check out cleared the cart.  I assume these problems will be fixed soon.
 I placed my order by phone with the Syndey office.  They also have
branches in Melbourne and Adelaide.

The items arrived with a hefty, beautifully illustrated, 600 page
Mektronics 2011 catalogue.

I was happy to find a local source for this material, which found tricky
to find in general.  The ex GST cost was AUD$29.37 plus $15 shipping.

  - Robin        http://www.firstpr.com.au/pcb-diy/

> Robin Whittle wrote:
>
> There's a source of M. G. Chemicals single and
> double-sided copper clad FR4 material in
> Australia, including 0.8mm double-sided material.
> 
> I recently bought some items from a company I
> was only dimly aware of:
> 
>   http://mektronics.com.au

Wow - It amazes me every time I see a company
with worse prices than radio spaces.  When I
was younger we used to joke about RS being
the dearest place in the world.

Also if you prefer Kinsten over MG chemicals
and live in OZ then there are 3 options since
computronics shut up shop

http://kinsten.com.au/
http://www.wiltronics.com.au/
http://www.kalexelectronics.com.au/

> Wow - It amazes me every time I see a company with worse prices than radio
> spaces.  When I was younger we used to joke about RS being the dearest
place
> in the world.
> 
> Also if you prefer Kinsten over MG chemicals and live in OZ then there are
3
> options since computronics shut up shop
> 
> http://kinsten.com.au/
> http://www.wiltronics.com.au/
> http://www.kalexelectronics.com.au/


Good luck trying to buy from Wiltronics.  Last couple of times I've tried
their cart was broken - checkout dumps you into PayPal's test area.

I emailed them a couple of times about it, even rang them; got no response.
I'm always astonished at companies who avoid people trying to give them
money.

Tony