[sdiy] Cutting PCBs

[Seb Francis]

A jigsaw with a blade designed for cutting metal will do a neat job - 
it'll blunt the blade pretty quickly.  As someone else said you may 
scratch the board surface with the jigsaw base so if you're bothered 
about this then stick some masking tape on the board during cutting.

Seb


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.
>
> I wanted to discuss this on the AVR-X forum, but I have not gotten accepted
> yet.  I think everyone is Europe is on holiday right now.. :)
>
> -troy
>
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