[sdiy] Fwd: Re: Personal Pcb milling machines ???

[Chris Juried]

Charlie,
That is quite a respectable "Home-made" PCB. On a board like and/or similar to the one in your example, what is your turn-around time from the point you hit the GO button? 
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      From: charlie wallace <charlie at finitemonkeys.com>
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From: "charlie wallace" <charlie at finitemonkeys.com>
Date: Dec 30, 2015 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Personal Pcb milling machines ???
To: <rsdio at audiobanshee.com>
Cc: 

I have an accurate cnc 560h for about 5+ years now. It's been great resourceIt has a camera for fidicuals. You cut one side.  Drill and align by two droll holes it marks outI can do 4 mil repeatable and everything I do is smd. I use the lpkf rivets for vias and we picked up an electro plater off ebay for a few kI've made 100s of prototypes at home on it over the years it's been great.  The bits I pick up from precise bits and there's Andrews bits on ebay you can get them for less than 10$ drill bit city has lots of drills for cheapI have only broken a couple of bits  on it. Usually router bits while cutting because I hadn't setup the software correctly and had never noticed 
https://charliex2.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/a360_test1a.png example cutChris over at accurate cnc has been great resource .People often pop over at the weekend to my place to make something and it's a great teaching resource where people can go from learning to making a board
On Dec 30, 2015 11:12 AM, <rsdio at audiobanshee.com> wrote:

Metrix Create:Space here in Seattle has a milling machine that they use and also make available by the hour for customer projects. I don't know its capabilities, but I do recall that drill bits break, and alignment is done by drilling guide holes before the PCB is fabricated - so that the drilling can line up with the traces. I also don't recall how long it takes to complete a board.

I believe it's a lot of work to master the many steps required to finish a board this way. I suppose it can be faster than ordering a board from an outside shop, but you'll be spending a lot of time that you could use more productively on something else.

Brian


On Dec 30, 2015, at 6:18 AM, Dan Snazelle <subjectivity at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone on here own a pcb Miller ? I am starting to spend a lot on quick prototypes and am just wondering if throwing down a couple grand would mean I could go straight from a gerber to a testable board in an hour
>
> But I'm sure there are downsides
>
>
> Any info appreciated!!
>
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