[sdiy] Cutting PCBs

[Luc Hondareyte]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 08:33 -0700, 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
Hi,

I use a dry tile saw with neat results (like this:
http://www.dsidiamond.com/tile%20saw%202.jpg). The cutting width is bit
large (~3..4mm) but it's hard-wearing ("inusable" in french). It's only
suitable for epoxy, not for bakelite nor pertinax.

Luc