[sdiy] Cutting PCBs

[John Luciani]

On 8/28/07, tsheets at saturn5.com <tsheets at saturn5.com> wrote:

> I am finally getting around to building my AVR-X synth (www.avrx.se), but
> the PCB they sent me that needs to be broken into two has no break-away tabs
> or anything on it.  I need to saw this thing in half but I have very little
> margin of error.  Any suggestions?  A jigsaw (skillsaw) seems too rough.
> A hack saw does not seem very accurate.  I do have a dremmel, but that seems
> like it could take forever.

If you go slow with a hack-saw you should be able to cut the boards.
Tin-snips should work. A jigsaw with a metal cutting will work but you may
scrape the board as the saw base goes over it. If you use the jigsaw you should
place something between the base and board.

(* jcl *)

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