Homebrew PCBs

They shipped it by UPS-slow-boat-via-Panama-Canal, I think. Oregon to 
Chicago in 8 days. It took Lewis and Clark at least 20 times that long, so 
why am I complaining?

I made a few small dabs on a quickie board, shoved an SO14 into the midst of 
it, and cranked up a medium flame under a flat bottom skillet. It turned 
ugly gray like Stefan said it would. I nodded to myself, and waited. A 
couple of minutes later, the gray turned shiny silvery. "Pretty!" says I. 
And it is, except I can make the dabs much (much, much) smaller in the 
future. Low flame, too, in the future. It seemed to cook awfully fast, about 
ten minutes from flame on to "Pretty!".

The skillet has a couple of copper ears for handles. Nobody uses it for 
cooking beyond their first experience, at least. It burns your hand even 
through oven mitts. For timing a slow cool-down, though, what can be better?

I should've done this years ago. All 14 pins are dead center on their pads 
(even though I couldn't see them after I mushed it in). No contortions, no 
pinning, no painful tweezing. Ya gotta love it. Best $20 I ever spent. Well, 
maybe not. I'm sure it comes close, though.

Mike.