Excellent info, Dave. I wish Marcus provided email to ocntact him.
Mike
--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Mucha" <dave_mucha@y...>
wrote:
> --- In 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