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Re: hand-brake project

2007-05-29 by rdheiliger

I do use a paper cutter for my FR4 boards. Buy at least a 12 inch so 
you have some leverage with the long handle. Even then cutting more 
than about 8 inches is tough. Do not buy one of those plastic ones. 
Buy one with the heavy cast iron blade arm and base. The plastic ones 
bend dramaticaly on 1/16 board. You can cut the 1/32 board with a 
good pair of scissors or sheetmetal cutter, and cuts beautifuly on a 
paper cutter.

RDHeiliger 

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Jeffrey Jenkins" 
<tesseract@...> wrote:
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "docstein99" <docstein99@> 
wrote:
> >
> > There are some design pictures of a homemade hand-brake in the 
files 
> > section.  did anyone make this, is there a project page with more 
> > pictures?
> >
> 
> "bump"
> 
> I'm very interested in this as well. Or an off-the-shelf product 
that
> can do the job. I've heard of people using paper cutters but I can't
> imagine them cutting FR-4 well at all...
>

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