Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

Hello,

I just bought two packs of 50 PC drill bits from Harbor Freight
tools. $10/kit, plus shipping, plus California sales tax. So for about
$30, I have 100 drill bits. Here's my review:

I was worried about what sizes they would give me. Turned out
pretty good though. Out of the 100, maybe 25 are "thin as a human hair"
and therefore pretty useless. And another 10 are pretty big - 1/8" or
so. All the rest are what I would call useful sizes. There was an
especially large quantity of #71 bits - a very useful size.

Each set of 50 bits came in a cardboard box with a sort of tray
folded into it with the bits nested in holes in the tray. They were
not in any particular order, and I sorted them by size myself.

Haven't drilled any PCBs with them yet, but they look sharp.

- Jerry Kaidor