Homebrew PCBs

On Tuesday 11 May 2004 04:26 pm, Dave Mucha wrote:
> > >  It is NOT difficult for a "home worker" to do, either!  Perhaps
> > > needs a bit of PRIDE...

> > well, you can certainly overdo it with that last one you know...
> >
> > ST

> You mean that when I polish and wax the copper before priming with
> clear pre-resist and then a post primer and then resist, then bake
> the coating on prior to confromal coating that I'm doing a little too
> much ?
>
> I always thought that the time it took to polish the solder joints
> was kinda long, espically the parts under the SMT chips.

Hey,  you left out the post-soldering machining of those joints...		:-)

> Seems the only thing that takes longer is when I have to re-work
> resistors so the %rating is always on the right hand side.  SMT are a
> little easier as getting the text lined up does not take as long.

It'd help if they used the same size markings,  too.