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[OT] Using a Dremel tool for drilling PCBs

My buddy did it this way back when he did hobby boards. I thought it was insane but hes got infinite patience.

I use a drill secured on a bench/drill press - that allows me freedom of movement. The only thing I am missing is one of those affixed light sources shining down. But I usually turn on my living room light and the halogen light and thats enough illumination

hell yeah!

Depends on how careful you are. Without the bench/drill press - you are looking at wasting a lot of drill bits.

carbide is what I get - off ebay. I have about 5 containers of those 50 pack types with varying sizes from 17.7mil to 45mil. For larger holes and or holes for standoffs/spacers I use titanium drill bits

Good luck

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samiam
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I used to make small vias but they were always a pain to solder. So for my latest work - I use larger vias (25/50 verses 17/32) and its easier to just stuff jumper were through it - solder one end - flip it over and set it on foam and solder the other end then snip off the excess

I am doing this on the two 8x5 double sided boards I built with the toner transfer method recently

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samiam

Yep - expect the developer of the pcb software to make his own stand.

dude that rocks!!!

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samiam

quitters never win

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samiam

Drill stand adapter for the Dremel is mandatory.

Dental burrs are great for drilling PCB holes. I find them far better than the PCB bits I've tried. Some dentists will give you their used burrs.

Ed

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ehsjr

what do those numbers mean?

Bye. Jasen

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Jasen

inner/outer rings

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samiam

diameters in mils (thousandths of an inch) of the drill holes and the pads, unless of course I am wrong ...

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Matt

Are there houses that actually use Gerber photoplotters, or does just the file format remain?

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