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<div>It all depends on which pcb company you use ! I don't recommend allpcb or pcbway for panels ! But some others do a great job ! Myro and pcb Cart <br>
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On Apr 24, 2018, at 7:03 PM, Sarah Thompson <<a href="mailto:plodger@gmail.com">plodger@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I've done it. It works pretty well. You have to be mindful of stiffness, but that depends a lot on what you have on the back bolted through it.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 5:53 PM, Pete Hartman <span dir="ltr">
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<div dir="ltr">I did a couple runs of aluminum PCB material with All PCB (<a href="http://allpcb.com" target="_blank">allpcb.com</a>). For prototyping, good enough, but the tolerances were sloppy. In one case I had a bit shaved off the last inch or so of
one side -- enough that you'd see a noticeable gap with two panels next to each other. In the other case, the silkscreen was smeary. In both cases, the mounting holes were kinda sloppy too.<br>
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I was putting silkscreen on the aluminum side (back side), perhaps going onto the mask side it would be better, but the sloppy holes and other tolerances are such that I don't think I'm going to do any real runs like this.<br>
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I've also done one run of regular PCB material panels with OSH, but they're not someone I'd do bulk orders with due to cost. The results were very nice (though purple).<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 5:39 PM, Chris McDowell <span dir="ltr">
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Has anyone here tried doing panels with PCBs? I've had metalphoto screw up enough orders that I'm ready to try something else! They're not -terrible- but they can't guarantee a tight tolerance and it always bugs me at least, drives me nuts at the most.
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If you've given it a shot, where has it worked out for you? <br>
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