Homebrew PCBs

If you have a socket on the board you can't get at the top pad to solder it!

I don't suffer from insanity I enjoy it!

--- On Wed, 8/18/10, Bob Macklin <macklinbob@...> wrote:

From: Bob Macklin <macklinbob@...>
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Copper Foil Vias, Correct URL
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 4:23 PM







 



  


    
      
      
      What's wrong with simply sticking a wire through the hole and soldering on 

both sides?



Bob Macklin

K5MYJ

Seattle, Wa.

"Real Radios Glow In The Dark"

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Leon Heller" <leon355@...>

To: <Homebrew_PCBs@...m>

Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:02 AM

Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Copper Foil Vias, Correct URL



> On 18/08/2010 15:00, Malcolm Parker-Lisberg wrote:

>> I tried that method back in the 1980s using a product called Circuitstick 

>> and it is not worth the bother, much too fiddly and slow, difficult to 

>> get a good solder joint between via copper and pad. It does give you a 

>> through hole though. I found it much simpler to solder a thin strand of 

>> copper to the top pad insert the device and solder both on the bottom. I 

>> now just double up and provide an adjacent set of via pads where a 

>> through via is needed on a component lead.

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>

> Multicore used to sell little inserts that were pressed into the holes,

> flared with a special tool, and then soldered on both sides. They are

> probably still available.

>

> Leon

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> Leon Heller

> G1HSM

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