cutting PCB traces

jhaible jhaible at debitel.net
Tue Jan 18 08:36:21 CET 2000


>  OTOH, I can take the .5mm deburring tool and just touch the thin trace
and
> it is done and because I have to use so little pressure that I can
> concentrate on the positioning rather than the pressure of the blade.
> Keep doing it with the exacto, if that works for you, fine. It doesnt work
> for me and it always takes too many tries to get through the copper. As
long
> as you have a small enough bit you shouldnt have any problem with a
dremel.
> Its NOT a chainsaw! Its a little teeny router blade! :)

I use a little drill that looks like a dremel, onle scaled down to 1/3 of
its size.
Works great, but of course there is the dust, so I wouldn't do it on
hundreds
of PCBs in a line.

JH.





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