Quite true, but wouldn't you have a difficult time controlling the width of it's 'path'? If there were a really good way to 'set' the resulting width, I can see it being very useful to my process - if I could say I wanted a .003 line width out of the rotating scribe, and it were very uniform, it would certainly speed up my scratching process, even if I had to slow down the linear speed of the plotter head to let the scribe do it's work.
∗Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Trethan [mailto:
stefan_trethan@...]
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 10:19 AM
To:
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: "Twist" on an old method of PCB making.
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:01:58 -0600, Brian Schmalz <
brian.s@...>
wrote:
>
> Yah, I've never had any problem with getting a clean line when I do
> scratching. My biggest problem is that the line is so incredibly thin
> and precise
> that I have a hard time 'covering' any sizable area in any reasonable
> time. I use a carbide tipped scratcher, the thing that's meant to
> scratch
> through Dykem.
> ∗Brian
the rotary scribe would make a wider line.
ST
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