Homebrew PCBs

Excellent info, Dave. I wish Marcus provided email to ocntact him.

Mike

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Dave Mucha" <dave_mucha@y...> 
wrote:
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "mikezcnc" <eemikez@c...> 
wrote:
> > I searched but weren't able to locate any posts on the subject 
but 
> I 
> > recall that tehre was a dicussion of it. Does anyone know a 
simple 
> > method that works on plating holes in a PCB?  Mike
> 
> I think the best home-brew (closer to professional sho) unit is 
from 
> Markus
> 
> http://www.myhome.ch/mzingg/pcbstuff/tps/
> 
> 
> Also go back to the posts around 1100, maybe go directly to 1108 
and 
> start reading.   IIRC, there was a detailed list of each step 
needed.
> 
> This is not for the faint of heart nor a simple one shot project.
> 
> 
> On the other side of things, there is a simple method from think 
and 
> tinker that plates the holes with a silver compound.  not cheap.
> 
> And there has been some mention of using carbon black as a method.  
> look around message 170.
> 
> also post 1163  and 2344
> 
> Interestlingly there is not a lot of posts regarding this.  I would 
> have hoped someone would have figured out how to do it easier.
> 
> 
> IIRC, there was a gentleman who posted quite a bit about carbon 
black 
> and his findings about using that to create the connections.
> 
> Most of use try to use single sided boards to the greatest level 
and 
> then add as few jumpers as possible.  As Stefan pointed out 
recently, 
> a resistor is a zero hole connection.  so, if you can, use your 
thru-
> hole devices as ways to connect both sides of the boards.
> 
> And if you find you are doing a lot near an IC, you can take a 
> machined pin IC socket and pull out all the pins and press them 
into 
> the holes on the board and then solder from both sides.
> 
> Dave