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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Drilling

From: Harvey White <madyn@...>
Date: 2010-02-01

On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:08:34 +0100, you wrote:

>The 12V proxxon drill is plenty strong for PCB drilling, and costs
>half of a dremel.
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>I bought one just so I don't have to take the IB/E out of the PCB
>drill stand each time I want to use it for other purposes. The IB/E is
>a great tool, better than the dremel, but overkill for PCB drilling.

I use the dremel for hand held stuff, where the runout is not
important. I avoided the 12 volt proxxon because of the duty cycle. I
figured that the AC model was capable of continuous operation, and I
do a lot of drilling at one time, since I tend to do runs of different
PC boards.

Harvey

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>On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Leon Heller <leon355@...> wrote:
>>Proxxon is better, but costs a lot more.
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>> Leon
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