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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: PCB Driller - Looking for comments

From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason@...>
Date: 2005-06-12

On Sunday 12 June 2005 09:01 am, mycroft2152 wrote:
> Hi Roy,
>
> By a small dremel, i was thinking of either the handpiece extension or the
> little battery powered dremel. Since this in a light duty machine, the
> battery version could work.

I don't think I've ever seen the battery version, but then I don't get out
shopping much like I used to. :-)

> I agree that modern printers are moving very small masses with the ink jet
> print heads, but i have a couple of very old massive printers, one is a
> daisy wheel type, the other is a wide carriage dot matrix. Both used a
> ribbon.

Yeah, the old daisywheel type printers would definitely get you some useful
stuff. I scrapped one of those, and have two more sitting in storage,
though one is technically a "thimble" printer rather than a daisywheel, an
NEC "Spinwriter". I look forward to getting some useful stuff out of those
when the time comes.

> The idea came from the old days of drawing with ASCII characters
> uning the Print command in Basic.

Heh. :-)