Homebrew PCBs

I have a small table saw that I use, i got it on ebay for about $40.  It's
just a very small saw, uses a 4" or 4-1/2" blade (can't remember), the blade
that came with it is a simple carbide-tooth blade, and it's worked fine,
with no signs of dulling after a lot of cutting.  It's loud, and like any
table saw there's always that risk of getting your finger in the blade, but
it makes very fast, perfect cuts, no rough edges or anything.

I generally set it in a shallow box to catch the shavings/dust.

-Evan

On 1/23/06, Ben <bhleavi@...> wrote:
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> Table Saw or a Sheet Metal Shear are the best ways that I have found.
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> I have used a Table Saw with a Dry/Wet Diamond blade, Table saw is a
> 10" but Diamond blade is a 7 1/4",  also a fine tooth Carbide blade
> should work good but will have a wider Kerf.  For the board sizes you
> listed one of the small bench models should work for you.
> If you use your Table Saw to cut PCB material be sure and have a good
> vacuum system on it for dust collection and also put a filter on the
> motor's air intake.  On the motor air intake I used a cloth type
> filter for a shop vac, and be sure and clean it.
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> Currently I use a Kepro shear that I picked up on Ebay at a good
> price, you can also get a sheet metal shear which is really what the
> Kepro shear is.
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> Also the Wet tile saws with a diamond blade should work, also guess
> would help keep the dust down.
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