I have made stencils using thin (10 mil) Garolite (FR4) that I get
from McMaster-Carr.
Mark
At 12:56 PM 7/20/2013, you wrote:
>My SMT adventures continue... I am making some promising progress,
>but I have discovered that the bronze sheets I am using to make
>stencils are destroying my tools! Cutting out one stencil for a
>small DCDC converter layout left my almost-new V60 tool unusably dull.
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>The bronze sheets would be fine, I think, for larger pitch
>components where you can simply do a through-cut with a small
>end-mill. But my smallest end-mill is 0.02" and that's too large to
>stencil the pads for the 0.65mm pitch IC I am using.
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>Has anyone used an alternative material for machining SMT stencils?
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