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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] help - cutting/routing ABS plastic enclosures

From: Les Newell <lesnewell@...>
Date: 2005-06-10

Hi David,

Get/make a small CNC router :-). If you shop around it does not cost all
that much to do. Of course you can use it for drilling the boards as well.

The other alternative is to make a jig and use a guide on a router. This
is fine if you are making a number of the same shape holes. You need to
spend some time getting the hole in the jig right but once that is done
you can knock out the holes in less than a minute.

Les


David McNab wrote:

>
>Apart from the considerable expense of sending the cases out to a
>laser-cutting shop, are there any ways I can make this cutting process
>any easier and get better results?
>
>I'd rather not have to spend more time routing out the enclosure than it
>takes to print/etch/populate/solder the PCB.
>
>All suggestions welcome.
>
>
>



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