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Markus

>Excellent info, Dave. I wish Marcus provided email to ocntact him.
>
>Mike
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>--- 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/
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>>
>> 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
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