Homebrew PCBs

> > andrewm wrote:
> > $40 for a tube of replacement rivets
> > and your away.  or $400ish for the
> > whole kit.

> Herbert wrote: 
> half a dollar per hole?
> or four dollars per hole?  my first
> guess is that's hard to justify....
> 

When you have a prototype to make that
has to be exactly the same layout as the
final board.  You have to get it done
as fast as possible.  You don't have
real through hole plating at your house.
$40 PER HOLE would still be cheap :D

However I think those packets that cost
$40 have 20 bails in.  Each bail has 25
rivets.  500 rivets per pack.  So that
is 0.1 dollar a hole.

Not quite so bad.  And I am sure it
saves me 0.1 dollars worth of time over
trying to do anything with poking wires
through holes to make vias.

(at least when I buy them in the land of
OZ from in the multicore brand I get 500
rivets per pack - your milage may vary in
the US)