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Re: VINYL CUTTER FOR PCB

2007-01-16 by James McGee

I'll get some tonight, the parts came in today so I'll go through the 
whole process and post them! I'm excited my first project! 
Question... Should I use the stencil and sharpie on the copper or use 
the vinyl to mask it?
J




--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <alienrelics@...> wrote:
>
> Pictures! We'd love to see some pictures.
> 
> Steve Greenfield
> 
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "James McGee" <ace@> wrote:
> >
> > I cut 2 out last night, small & simple (relay board) one I weeded 
and 
> > left the pattern in case I wanted to use it for sort of a 
stencil. 
> > The other is the pattern. I was able to cut and weed .77mm/.0030 
> > traces. I was suprised such small stuff worked so easy, I 
> > use "bionic" reading glasses to weed. (lol) The whole pattern is 
> > 1"X2" and nothing fancy or complicated, I downloaded some other 
> > boards and imported them but nothing looked acceptable, I'll have 
to 
> > redraw them to get acceptable results. I'm thinking about using 
one 
> > of the old printers I have around here and moding it to print 
> > directly and trying waterproof ink. The Stika may work if I can 
> > import the images a little "cleaner" The weeding aint to bad with 
a 
> > razor hobby knife and descent reading glasses ... 
> > 
> >
>

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