vectorboards are GO!

[Paul Perry]

At 04:07 PM 10/06/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm looking into putting individual modules in a modular system on their
>own piece of vectorboard.. 
>Is there any problem in using the super-cheap radio shack 3-hole pattern 
>vectorboard? 
....no......

On one hand I don't want to pay the sums mouser and digikey
>are asking (upwards of $20/30 a board) , but I don't want any problems
>later on. My main fear is that the traces on the pads will crack 
.....they wont..
and
 I remember the solder flow on the copper being
>pretty awful, 
.....not if you rub it with steel wool before soldering
(use the steel wool without the inbuilt soap!)

this is exactly how I tell people to do one-off rack stuff..
you can do rows of jacks on a second bit of stripboard too
and hold them to the panel with the jack nuts.. easy to dissemble
for troubleshooting.

paul perry melbourne australia