PCB milling machines??

[Tim Ressel]

John,

I am lucky enough to have access to an LPKF PCB router. It's a pretty cool
thing, and I was much joyed to be able to use it. Basically it is able to
produce two-sided PCBs. No plated holes and no solder mask though. This makes it
not as useful as it sounds. No solder mask means mucho shorts when soldering,
and no plated holes means you cannot route component-side traces to any part
that mounts flush to the board. Despite these shortcomings, its a great tool for
blasting out prototypes in a hurry. Oh, and the machines cost an arm and a leg.
All of my DIY synth module PCBs are being made with the LPKF.

Let me know if you have more questions.

Tim Ressel--Hardware DQ
Hewlett-Packard
Verifone Division
916-630-2541  
tim_r1 at verifone.com 



> ----------
> From: 	John Speth[SMTP:johns at oei.com]
> Sent: 	Friday, July 30, 1999 4:58 PM
> To: 	Synth-DIY List (E-mail)
> Subject: 	PCB milling machines??
> 
> I was paging through Electronic Design and saw a couple of ads for desktop 
> PCB milling machines which basically goes from Gerber to drilled PCB by 
> milling away copper and drilling holes.  Has anybody used these or know 
> anything about them.
> 
> John Speth
> Object Engineering, Inc
> mailto:johns at oei.com
> 
>