Homebrew PCBs

i have also seen a setup where the drill came from underneath.
i have no idea how you cold see it with this unit.
but it looked not very expensive.

wait.. now i remember also a very heavy press as you described standing in the pcb shop.
but it was VERY old.
it has had a round screen, it looked like some military target finding equipment.

(i remember it looked like one of the alien/robot monsters in the old films with this "viewing screen" 
as head and the legs of the very solid stand.)

i have never seen anybody using this monster.  they all prefered small white drill presses which more 
looked like microscopes, without eyepieces.


19.05.2003 09:24:16, "Leon Heller" <leon_heller@...> wrote:

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>I use a Minicraft drill and stand, similar to the Dremel units. It isn't 
>very good - it's quite easy to break carbide drills. A friend of mine has a 
>PCB dept. where he works and they have a rather old manual Excellon PCB 
>drill. It looks as if it was originally *very* expensive and is *very* 
>heavy. The drill comes up from underneath the PCB and a magnified image of 
>the pad is shown on a screen. Someone at Southampton University was giving 
>one of these away a few months ago, perhaps I should have taken it off his 
>hands. 8-)
>
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