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Markus

>Excellent info, Dave. I wish Marcus provided email to ocntact him.
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>Mike
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>--- 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/
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>> 
>> 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
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