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From: "alan00463" <alan00463@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 5:49 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Cheap rotary tools at Harbor Freight


> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "kilocycles" <kilocycles@y...>
> wrote:
>>
>> Alan,
>> Now that you mention it, I have a saw table I haven't used in years
>> that mounts a regular 7 - 7/14-in circular saw. The carbide blades
>> for those saws are pretty thick, since their application is not
>> usually fine finish work, but I haven't investigated diamond blades.
>> The diamond-edge tile saws are made to cut ceramic material, so I
>> figure they'll do pretty well on fiberglass-epoxy.
>>
>> The reground router bits I use are carbide, and they have no problem
>> at all with the PC boards. In the meantime, I quickly dulled two
>> regular Dremel "hobby" bits drilling the stuff. The downside to the
>> box of 40 reground bit deals is that there are only 4 or five sizes
>> that I'd ever use, at least for PC boards. Still, they're very
>> economical when on sale.
>>
>> Ted
>
> Yes, that would work fine, I'd think. How about the score-n-snap
> method, i.e. score with a razor-knife and a metal straitedge, then
> snap it on the edge of a table ?
>
> Has anybody been successful using this technique on fiberglass-epoxy?

That's what I do. I use a Stanley knife, it works very well.

Leon
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