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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] PCB drilling vacuum table ??

2011-02-14 by Zoran A. Scepanovic

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On 13.Feb.11 20:11, designer_craig wrote:
> I am about to build a vacuum table to hole down the blank stock when I cnc drill my boards.  I am looking some low cost sacrificial material to use between the board and the vacuum table.
> 
> The material needs to be thick enough so as not to drill into the vacuum table and be some what porous to allow air diffusion for a good vacuum grip.
> 
> The ideal material would be something like 1/16" thick MDF.  I have heard MDF is fairly porous. I have only seen MDF in 1/2 and 3/4" thickness.  Possilble some sort of construciton paper or cardboard. Guess I need to do some experiments.
> 
> Anyone got and good ideas?
> 
> Craig 
> 

You should be able to find 1/4" MDF, just mask the unused MDF.

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