Homebrew PCBs

If you are going to have to attach and remove the board often, I would use velcro....

Adhesive foam is the best for "permanent" solutions.

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Kjell M. Myksvoll" <kmyksvo@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> It should just hold on. But the card that it is to be
> attached to is standing vertically. But the smaller
> card is rather light and small, so I don't think gravity
> will come into play - even in the long run...
> 
> Never actually thought about adhesive foam. Shall take
> a look at it.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> br,
> kmm
> 
> 
> ti., 09.02.2010 kl. 21.46 +0100, skrev Stefan Trethan:
> > Does it need to be very solid, or just hold on?
> > 
> > A gentle and removable nice looking option is adhesive coated foam.
> > You can get tape and pads, different thicknesses, you want both sides
> > sticky. This is widely used in all sorts of products. It should be
> > thick enough so you can never compress both adhesive sides together,
> > or they might rip components off (happened to most Samsung SGH 2400
> > phones). That's a problem with any strong glue or spacer material, so
> > the foam is good because it will flex or even rip before that happens.
> > 
> > Hot glue will work for this, I've used it a number of times to stick
> > stuff right on top of populated circuit boards. But it'll look very
> > much like a bodge no matter how neat you try to do it. If that don't
> > matter it's a solution.
> > 
> > ST
> > 
> > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Kjell M. Myksvoll <kmyksvo@...> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Probably a somewhat silly question, but...
> > >
> > > I need to attach a small populated circuit board on top of a
> > > (much) larger, also populated, circuit board. Next it should
> > > be easy to separate them, without destroying anything, later
> > > on if that should be needed. That is I want to achieve the
> > > same as one usually do with using spacers, but with using
> > > glue.
> > >
> > > Is there any type of glue that can be used this? Can one use
> > > "hot-gun" glue for this?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > >
> > > br,
> > > kmm
> > >
> > >
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