Homebrew PCBs

David P Harris wrote:

>Alan King wrote:
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>>...Especially now with PCBEx cutting the quantity in half from CustomPCB, a 
>>single even low volume producing product can pay for made boards.  
>>$125+ship for five 8x10 boards is simply very reasonable.  
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>Can you be a bit more specific about this? 
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>David
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http://www.pcbex.com/
https://maxima5.abac.com/pcbex/product_index.asp
http://www.pcbex.com/product_help.asp

  But some hinges on their "We do not accommodate gold fingers, step & 
repeat, cutouts or blind/buried vias in our standard prototype PCB 
online order.".  Actually a bit irritating that someone ever wrote that 
sentence as is, 'step & repeat' refers to so many different things it's 
a silly error to have not qualified it.  Panelizing your order for you 
is a small PITA for them so many won't do it on prototypes etc, on the 
other hand some people slackly use it to also refer to a pre-done 
board.  Long as they'll take my 8x10 then they'll be right in line with 
CustomPCB's 8x11, and have mask too.  If on the other hand they complain 
about my several boards that I will cut out to my needs later, then 
they'll be a bit behind CustomPCB on overall pricing.  Needless to say 
I'll be sure and report how it goes.  I should have already had these 
in, just had too many other things happening at once.  Actually, while I 
have it up I'm sending an email to support and a picture of the panel to 
see, may as well find out now.  They'd still be quite reasonable on some 
things, just not on a panelized setup if they won't..

Alan