There are special panel shears that reduce the problem.
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Piers Goodhew <piers@...> wrote:
> I just made a tiny board to play with SMD LEDs (http://twitpic.com/
> 3fiy2 ). Thanks to this thread I just used my handy cheap tinsnips,
> and they made pretty short work of the 1/16 fibreglass - the only real
> problem was that the cut starts straight, but suddenly veers off when
> the "push" from the two sides of the PCB passes some threshold.
>
> But it beats the pants of my previous hacksaw efforts.
>
> PG
>