Homebrew PCBs

I sometimes make a copper pour, but i'm not very fond of "orphaned" areas  
enclosed by tracks, and deleting them makes the board look very strange  
with copper all round but areas missing.
Since etchant costs almost nothing i don't worry much about it.

ST


On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:31:06 +0100, Chris Horne <chris@...> wrote:

> On a different subject entirely,
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> I am 100% happy with press-n-peel  but there again I don't have to do
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> any super fine work. I gave up UV exposure several years ago except
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> for etching on curved aluminium castings.
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> I keep looking at the picture on the group homepage and wince at the
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> amount of etchant used to etch those big empty areas....
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> I know 99% of the group will already be filling those areas with
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> copper, but in case there are any beginners out there, unless there is
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> a good reason to remove the big areasof copper,  (like RF work) it is
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> more economical to leave as much copper on the board as possible.
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> Chris