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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: EDM of PCB

From: Alan King <alan@...>
Date: 2006-05-10

Andrew wrote:

>>Alan wrote:
>><snip>
>>taking wires out to the edge of the board
>>and soldering a wire around, take several
>>to a single area and drill a larger hole
>>and wrap wires around,. etc etc.
>><snip>
>>
>>
>
>I personaly would prefer to drill lots of
>itsy bitsy little holes and rivit in a via
>
>



Looking back at it my original reply was a bit too easy to interpret
the other way. That was meant as a rhetorical question, as in not only
do a lot of people not absolutely need a CNC to do the holes, they could
even change their layout form and not even need any holes at all. Not
meant to be 'no one would ever possibly want a CNC for any holes'.

Your needs are at one end of the extremes, many people making their
own boards would never consider doing one 1/10th that complex by hand,
and could easily adapt what they do make to rarely need any holes at
all. No holes can go a long way for prototyping once you've adapted to it.

Alan