Homebrew_PCBs

> Has anyone thought of a Yag laser for PCBs?
> I see people are actually 'milling' the unwanted copper off the
> boards.
>
>
> Yags are great for copper (On CO2 lasers, copper is a BIG no-no)

and

> the beam can be delivered via fiber optics with a Yag. Plus you
> cna 'drill' the holes without a tool change. Get fancy and you can
> adjust to focus for bigger/smaller kerfs (though not recomemned)
>
> Nice chemical free way of doing it (at least chem free before PTHs)

Here is a high speed PCBoard drilling machine that uses a

laser.http://www.hitachidigital.com/laser.html



John