Calin
Go ahead with Nickel print as trial if you can afford.
Conductive paints work as the word specify. Your purpose will solve, but only for prototyping purpose
What i mean by saying this is that the time required in conducting each hole takes your hours of effort, but you learn a lot more for future.
I am sure that you have that much energy which drives you to ready your prototype. That's the result you are waiting for. Good Luck
Athar Kaludi
Premium PCB Manufacturing
Pakistan
--- On Fri, 7/30/10, morarcalin <morarcalin@...> wrote:
From: morarcalin <morarcalin@...>
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Nickel and Silver Print from MG for through hole plating
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, July 30, 2010, 11:41 AM
MG Chemicals has two conductive prints that they claim can be used for hole plating. Like I said "they claim" :)) ... so no idea if they really work. That's why I am asking first.
One of them is Nickel Print (around 11$ for 3/4oz) and second is Silver Print (around 35$ for 3/4oz). The difference is in the conductivity, obviously the nickel one being less conductive. MG is saying that they can be used for hole plating.
I am curious if anyone has tried any these two? If it really works for sure will make life a lot easier for DYI-ers like us.
I think using first the nickel one to "pre-plate" and then electroplate or just thin plate with liquid tin to make the soldering work better may do the trick ..... I am not talking doing production work, just to get prototyping easier.
Calin
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