Homebrew PCBs

Cool, then I will continue to work with it and save my band saw 
blades for cutting wood!

Chris



--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Stefan Trethan" 
<stefan_trethan@g...> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:41:30 +0200, lcdpublishing  
> <lcdpublishing@y...> wrote:
> 
> >
> > In my very limitted experiences, I am really liking this white
> > material but I suspect it is not the best material to use.
> > So, if you all don't mind, can we discuss the merits of the 
various
> > materials?
> > Chris
> 
> 
> It is a cheaper material, yes, but it is not going to give you any 
trouble.
> 
> FR4 is more mechanically stable and probably has better 
electrical  
> characteristics as well, which you don't need to mind.
> Also, you can only plate through holes on FR4, the paper does not 
produce  
> acceptable holewalls. Not an issue for us.
> 
> FR1 and even phenolic boards are still widely used in industry, 
for  
> "cheap" jobs like TV sets and other low-density stuff like that. 
Those are  
> often done single-sided so the paper is no problem.
> 
> 
> As others said, FR4 can often be bought very cheap as cutoffs, so 
it is  
> for me cheaper than FR1. Because of that i use the FR1 i have only 
for  
> prototypes, which will not see permament service, not because it 
is  
> inferior but becasue i have to use FR4 for most stuff anyway so 
better use  
> it where the harder work has some lasting effect.
> 
> ST
>