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For homemade double sided non-plated through I use fine tinned copper wire, through the board and bent over on the top and soldered to the top pad.  Then use IC sockets with tape pins, not round, and you can then insert the socket, if you have position the wire correctly, and then solder wire and pin to the bottom pad.

Malcolm

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On Thu, 2/16/17, 'Brad' unclefalter@... [Homebrew_PCBs] <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 Subject: RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] Good techniques for cleaning up old artwork?
 To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
 Date: Thursday, February 16, 2017, 4:42 PM
 
 
  
 
 
 
   
 
 
     
       
       
       Thanks so much for all
 this!  Yes, I think this will be a very
 difficult project.  But I like challenges, even if I
 fail.    Unfortunately as far as I know
 there are no better copies of the artwork.  The mail-in
 offer for these plans was out only briefly in 1976 and so
 far only one person has come forward with originals, which
 is what these scans were based on.  Cleaning up the artwork
 will take a long time but I don’t think it’s impossible
 – I’d just hoped for some faster method.  Recently I acquired an original
 set of plans for the 1974 Mark-8 mini-computer.  I have
 original boards and now these, but had originally planned in
 the absence of both to make clone boards from scanned copies
 of the plans online.  I was stunned to realize just how
 badly off the scans were when I compared the
 three.  Likewise on my TV Typewriter. 
 Although I had the foresight to print every pattern after
 scaling and check each individual IC, I neglected to
 consider the bus connectors that stack the four TVT boards
 together vertically.  I’ve made it work but it’s an
 awkward squeeze, because one of those connectors is skewed
 slightly to the left.  I have printed off several random
 sections of this artwork after scaling it correctly and so
 far tihngs fit perfectly.  I don’t have to worry about
 connecting other boards, so I can use the techniques I’ve
 learned to get top and bottom perfectly aligned.  But yeah,
 the through plate situation is tricky.  I mean, I could just adopt the
 approach used by Mark-8 builders – even the original
 boards, although double-sided, were not through plate. You
 had to solder on both sides.  I could do that, although the
 original board in this case had IC sockets.  Not sure how
 you’d solder both sides of a socket.  One other thing I’m thinking
 about now.. this board is much larger than 8x11 – I’m
 guessing my only option re: toner transfer is to use two
 blue press n peel sheets per side?  Thanks for all your help and
 information!  It is greatly appreciated.    From: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
 [mailto:Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com] 
 Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2017 9:24
 PM
 To:
 Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Good
 techniques for cleaning up old
 artwork?    Brad,I looked at your
 artwork scans. WOW. Has anyone suggested that you might be a
 glutton for punishment? I noticed that the first two
 scans are much cleaner than the others. If you have access
 to the pages that they were scanned from, you should re-scan
 with the lines square to the scanning direction. This will
 produce much cleaner results. Before you invest too
 much time is trying to make clean artwork using the scans as
 a basis, make sure that the scanning process didn't
 distort the dimensions in one direction or the other. I have
 found small differences in the scaling between the x and y
 axes that make assembly of 40 pin ICs, or long connectors
 impossible. These boards will be difficult to etch.
 The combination of large open spaces and very narrow traces
 may make it difficult to keep the traces from over etching.
 To answer your question about plated through holes,
 they can be done, but it is a bit involved. There are a
 number of tutorials on making plated through holes on
 YouTube. Here are two of them:Process 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTNuTv_IQp4Process
 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3GY-j4Gh0Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rME-XGCcCoI
 have not tried either of these processes, but they do seem
 possible.� The difficulty I see with your boards is the
 sheer number of holes. The possibility that one or more of
 the holes, especially the small via holes, not getting
 plated through is very great. Finding an open would be very
 difficult, not to mention time consuming.One thing to
 remember: The holes are drilled and plated before the board
 is etched. This means that the holes need to be protected
 during the etching process. It seems to me that the best
 process for doing this would be the photoresist process. The
 photomask used for resist exposure would need to have the
 drill holes omitted, so the resist will tent over the holes
 during etching. Drilling before photomasking has the benefit
 that it makes the mask easier to align. I would suggest that
 some extra pads with holes should be included on the masks
 to assist with alignment. These pads would include the drill
 holes. This also improves the probability that two sided
 boards would have proper alignment between sides.HarveyOn 2/15/2017 6:04 PM,
 'Brad' unclefalter@...
 [Homebrew_PCBs] wrote:� My TV Typewriter project is
 getting close to the finish line so I�m working on
 lining up a new project.�What I�d like to do next
 is a replica of the SOL terminal prototype that appeared in
 Popular Electronics in July of 1976.� I have the
 artwork for it here:�http://www.sol20.org/articles/img/PE_SOL.pdf�As you can see, the quality
 of the scan is pretty lousy.� There�s no other
 sources for this that I�ve found.� I can clean it
 up manually with Photoshop or Illustrator (and in fact have
 started on the former) but that will take hours (months,
 probably).� I�m wondering if there�s a better
 technique than endlessly using the rectangle tool to remake
 the traces and remote the �noise�.�I expect there will be other
 challenges, being that this is a double sided board.�
 There *isn�t* a way for a home PCB maker to do
 thru-plate without third party help is there?� I
 don�t want to send this off to a board house because of
 the likely cost but also because that�s not how a
 hobbyist would have done it back then.� Since this
 artwork was sent to those that wrote in for it, I�m
 assuming they just created it as a two sided board the usual
 way and then soldered in the connections between sides via
 ICs, jumper wire, etc.�I also don�t want to
 completely redraw the thing.� For me, that would lose
 the spiritual connection to the original artwork.�
 I�m trying to leave as much of it as original as
 possible.�Anyway, thoughts and
 suggestions here are most welcome.�   
 
     
      
 
     
     
 
 
 
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