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

Hi all,

I am lucky enough to have gotten a few HP plotters. these are the
ones with the multi pen carosel. I need to check each to see if they
are all the same model. The paper moves back and forth under the
pen and the pen moves side to side.

Anyway, I am thinking of doing something with them. one idea is to
unload them on E-bay, another to see what steppers are used.

the last is to modify one for making PCBs.

the connectors are GPIB or some such odd type.

any suggestions ?

in reading the list there is the pen filled with resist idea and the
coat the board and scratch off the coating idea.

has anyone modified one of these for drilling ?

Dave