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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Making PCBs - The other tasks

From: uhmgawa <uhmgawa@...>
Date: 2005-04-24

Stefan Trethan wrote:

> Sheet metal shears/scissors. Either handheld or the bench variety, all
> works well.
> Tile saws are said to work too, are cheap (30eur) and run in water bath
> (dust).
> A small table saw with a carbide blade makes very nice cuts, but IMO is
> too loud and messy.
> Strong paper cutters.

While I've used shearing in the past, I'd rather
not do so if I had a choice. Shearing stresses
are rather broadly distributed compared to sawing,
routing, etc.. Making cuts close to active traces
and vias via shearing is best avoided IMHO.

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