21.05.2003 13:56:44, "Marty Grove" <
MartyGrove@...> wrote:
>Hello to everyone.
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>My name is Marty Grove, and I have been around the printed circuit board
>manufacturing business for quite a few years. I found this group a few
>weeks ago when searching Yahoo groups for "printed circuit board". I have
>been lurking ever since, and I'm fascinated at what several of you are
>accomplishing!
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>Anyway, one question I do have is: what are you doing with the circuit
>boards you are building? Are they for private use, are you selling them
>(kind of like a small-scale quick-turn business), or is this simply a hobby.
>to see it's possible to make quality boards using homebrew techniques? I'm
>simply curious about this.
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>Anyway, all the best. Hope you all don't mind if I sit back and watch all
>of your progress. I might jump in from time to time to ask additional
>questions, and who knows. I might start making some boards of my own out in
>the garage!
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>Marty
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hi
for me this is also mostly a hobby.
it resulted from the fact the the teacher which supervised the pcb making in the school i was when the
demand for pcbs arised was very dislikeable.
i did want to make pcbs, and going to this ∗∗∗ every time was no option for me.
and i'm also always open to try things myself.
its not too complicated as you all know and i did get the same results as i would have got from having
it done in this scool at home. i made regularly pcbs in this time, at graduating we all have to make
some projects, much with pcb involved. i had then the great advantage of not having to ask this guy for
making it (don't think for free!! we had to pay!) and waiting for his grace to have it done in two weeks
(he didn't do anything, only commanded a few pupils from the entry classes to do it!). i did my pcbs
(made dds generator dsp programmed for several kinds of modulation) and also some pcbs for collegues
this time when graduating.
i also did and still do sell pcbs if frieds need them, but they don't have to pay much..
and demand is low..
as i'm studying now the demand from others for pcbs got actually lower (maybe because fewer people in my
surroundings know i can do that). so i mostly make my own pcbs.
i know i would get the best results with some optical process (as i did in the past).
but i really want to try everything.
so i tried out every process i know, or will try it in the future, desperate to find THE method.
i really would enjoy holding the pcb in my hands a few minutes after the desigh gets finished.
i would like to do some more pcbs for other people but the demand seems very low and promoting it a lot
risks getting annoyed by fiscal authorities.
so i keep it simply as a hobby which i try to perfect.
regards
stefan