[sdiy] PCB houses

[Adam Schabtach]

Actually, right now in Boulder it's 29F and falling, overcast, and a few
snowflakes are starting to drift down. :-)

Advanced Circuits is actually in Aurora, not Boulder. I can't figure out how
to get pricing info about their "bare bones" service without actually
uploading Gerbers.

I suspect that there really is no such thing as an "environmentally-friendly
PCB house", unfortunately. Yes, US manufacturers are probably more careful
about waste disposal and how they treat their workers, but making PCBs has
got to be an inherently dirty job. On the other hand, I'd bet a donut that
the US wastes more in five minutes than the entire SDIY community will waste
in five decades.

--Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl 
> [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Limor
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 12:29 PM
> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] PCB houses
> 
> I use Advanced circuits (4pcb.com) exclusively for my kits. 
> The boards are fairly priced if you're making a bunch, and 
> the quality is top-notch which is the most important thing 
> for me. Made in warm, sunny Boulder Colorado. They have a 
> barebonespcb.com cheap-o 2-sided overnight thingy too.
> 
> Tom Arnold wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:28:57AM -0500, John Mahoney wrote:
> >> If anyone knows a [fully] US-based, environmentally-friendly PCB 
> >> house, let us all know about it.
> > 
> > http://www.douglas.com, been in business a long time, located ( 
> > actually located facilities and all ) in San Leandro, 
> California.  Sadly, not cheap.
> > 3 times the cost of import boards in the quantities we want.
> > 
> > There is another outfit in Redwood City, CA that does 
> PCBoards but I 
> > havent squeezed a quote out of them.  Local people might remember 
> > newspaper articles about someone falling into a vat of 
> etchant a year 
> > or so back, thats the place...  I guess thats once difference, that 
> > happens in the US it makes newspapers and gets investigated, that 
> > happens in China, you have some extra organic compounds in 
> your solder mask or something...
> > 
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