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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] board mounting holes

From: "Stefan Trethan" <stefan_trethan@...>
Date: 2005-03-11

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:42:42 -0500, Henry Carl Ott <carlott@...>
wrote:

>
> I have one of these and it's bigger brother with a bench mount (both
> roper whitney brand) . Very handy to have around. Makes nice, fast, and
> neat holes (especially in clad). A bit of a bother to change dies, so I
> tend to just use for common hole sizes.
> Don't try to muscle through too thick material, otherwise it's fine.
> carl


I've once seen a bench mount version that had the dies mounted like a
chinese fan and you just rotated the right die under the lever and away
you go. Sadly i haven't seen such a unit for sale and it would be a) too
expensive and b) too big, but it sure is dead useful.

So i'll try to get a hand-operated version, i reckon it is enough for PCBs.

thanks

ST