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Subject: Thoughts from the List-Owner Re: solder paste - cnc dispenser

From: "Steve" <alienrelics@...>
Date: 2004-04-28

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Mucha" <dave_mucha@y...>
wrote:
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <alienrelics@y...>
> wrote:
> > I must admit I felt a bit wierd when that group was created. I
> thought
> > maybe I'd offended someone. I've never told anyone to take the
> > drill/mill CNC thing off the list, and I'm the list owner and -only-
> > moderator.
...
> No offense to this list, but this list is how to make circuit boards,
> not how to make machines, and not how to engineer equipment, select
> linear rails or drawer slides etc.
>
> It would be nice to have one be-all list, but this list is clearly
> stated as how to make boards.
>
> There are other CNC lists and other machine too lists, but the
> newbies I see on those are afraid of asking questions as often the
> discussion are so high level. if you ask about drawer slides on the
> CCED list, you will get laughed at and told 100 reasons why it will
> not work. of couse on the CNC-PCB list you can see pictures of those
> machines and the boards they have made.
>
> If there were not such a huge seperation between the topics, the list
> would not have been created.

I understand your points, and notice I only said something when it
came up. This is "my" list only in that I started it and guide it, but
without members I'd be here by myself.

My original intention was to bring together all the separated
discussions about making PCBs that I saw on other lists. Usually
someone on one list would have the answer to someone's question on
another list, and never the twain would meet.

So if I don't mention something specifically, it does -not- mean that
it is not allowed.

An excerpt from the homepage:

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Making, etching, soldering printed circuit boards yourself.

Any method allowed by law and local custom including photo, CAM, toner
transfer, direct printing, plotter, laundry pen, silkscreening,
toaster oven, paint stripper heat gun, etc.
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So if you -want- to take some of the discussion to another list, if
you -want- to start a list dedicated to CNC_PCB, I understand as it is
a big subject. But don't feel like you -have- to.

Steve, the list owner and only moderator of Homebrew_PCBs