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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "mikezcnc" <eemikez@c...> wrote:
> I searched but weren't able to locate any posts on the subject but
I
> recall that tehre was a dicussion of it. Does anyone know a simple
> method that works on plating holes in a PCB? Mike
I think the best home-brew (closer to professional sho) unit is from
Markus
http://www.myhome.ch/mzingg/pcbstuff/tps/Also go back to the posts around 1100, maybe go directly to 1108 and
start reading. IIRC, there was a detailed list of each step needed.
This is not for the faint of heart nor a simple one shot project.
On the other side of things, there is a simple method from think and
tinker that plates the holes with a silver compound. not cheap.
And there has been some mention of using carbon black as a method.
look around message 170.
also post 1163 and 2344
Interestlingly there is not a lot of posts regarding this. I would
have hoped someone would have figured out how to do it easier.
IIRC, there was a gentleman who posted quite a bit about carbon black
and his findings about using that to create the connections.
Most of use try to use single sided boards to the greatest level and
then add as few jumpers as possible. As Stefan pointed out recently,
a resistor is a zero hole connection. so, if you can, use your thru-
hole devices as ways to connect both sides of the boards.
And if you find you are doing a lot near an IC, you can take a
machined pin IC socket and pull out all the pins and press them into
the holes on the board and then solder from both sides.
Dave