Can someone Clue Me in About Veroboard?

I read in alt.binaries.schematics.electronic that Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun, the Dark Remover" wrote (in ) about 'Can someone Clue Me in About Veroboard?', on Sat, 2 Oct 2004:

SRBP is 'synthetic resin-bonded paper' and is what you call 'phenolic' (the type of resin is 'phenolic').

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Thanks. Figures - tech term. I found several other URLs by searching for stripboard, but no place other than BISCO that sells it locally. Some place in Canada seems cheap, but wants a lot for shipping and handling. I found the above part number at Newark InOne, but they're out of stock. I'm still looking..

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I looked at the patterns on their website and what's in the latest Mouser catalog, and neither had anything like a veroboard or stripboard. Thanks.

Yes, it's the stinky Phenolic paper stuff and that part number quoted is a common size. The stuff I buy (UK) is a bit longer (5" by 12") and stocked by Farnell as #147-899. To save waste I tend to build up on one end of the long strip and when finished, just snap off to size. regards john

I use Veroboard for virtually all my projects. Like John J, I buy large sizes, for economy and flexibility. (Not sure what you mean by 'snap off' though, John - I use a saw .)

It's widely available in UK. I get mine from either Rapid Electronics

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Vero made a wonderful "3"-voltage ground plane perf board that was ideal for analog prototyping and no one else makes anything like it. [BTW, the "3" voltages included ground but that's one more than anyone else's bus structures handle.]

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Saw!. Sounds like dusty work. I've found I can run the scalpel (type 11a blade) across the track side row of holes and then gently bend the board it it's edge. It's a bit like cutting glass. The scalpel line provided a high stress point and that's where the board'll part. Also use the scalpel for track cutting.

(Gloat! ... but if I'm ever wanting "really neat" (a strange rare event), I'll cut the Vero etc to size using the £120 Axminster sheet metal guillotine :-) regards john

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I still haven't found a site where I can buy it. Newark is out of the Newark part no 08WX7693 which is Kelan 147-899, which is about 5" by

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I got on Futurlec and found that they had the larger appx 4" square stripboards for $2 and the smaller 2"x4" for a dollar. So I ordered fifty buck's worth. Should arrive in a week or so. That should last for awhile. ;-)

Thanks for everyones' help.

^^ Always pleased to see someone championing the "its versus it's" cause, Watson - but you're at risk of being hoist by your own petard . That should be "everyone's" .

P.S. This would have been an email, but darned if I can find a valid address?

Thanks for the typo clue.

"Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, the Dark Remover\"" wrote: [snip]

I used to get that wrong all the time till I mentally correlated "its" with "his" and "hers". For some reason it had originally been wired in my brain along with "Tim's". For some bizarre reason I was never taught English grammar at school, though I understand it has now returned to the curriculum.

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I'm caught bang to rights guv'. Point accepted graciously, will try to do a little better next time, may even try an occasional spell check. :-( I do admit though to near zero literary skills, hence my prime focus is in just laying the comments down in some kind of orderly and (hopefully) linear manner. A moments distraction on my part can result in typing gibberish. Evidenced in a post last year, I managed to reverse an entire sentence, only to be saved from the pit of eternal damnation by the very flexible, forgiving nature of the English language. (I still though, reserve the right to use English English and to salt in f****ng expletives.)

As a general comment ... there seems to me a number of people here, who have a real intuitive feeling for the written word. An example last week I was reading, was some well written notes by a Clifford Heath. Being curious, I wondered if the 'writing' ability (like many other skills) can be aquired by lots and lots of practice. Looking at a letter I'd written earlier in the day, I knew it couldn't. Some lucky b*****ds are just born with it :-) regards john

Smells lovely - lol - when you solder to it too.

Graham

According to the Bisco website - they aren't a distributor for Vero ( or APW ).

Vero were bought by APW a few yrs back

Maybe the California office can help ?

Synthetic resin bonded paper - awful stuff !

They make it in epoxy too which is much nicer.

Dimensions look familiar.

When hobbyist stores still existed here chances were that they kept the smaller panels. Not many ppl need 1/2 a metre of the stuff.

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I guess small is relative, but the ones I saw on the websites were 17" long, nearly a half meter long. So I figured that the commonly used ones were smaller than that, like 4" by 6" (10 by 16 mm) or so.

Anyway, after trying several sites that had it, but none that would show me what to buy or let me order, I finally just gave Futurlec a try, and they had both the 4" square and 2" by 4" sizes for about $2 and $1 respectively, so I ordered fifty bucks' worth. They should be here next week. They seemed to be cheaper than the others, too.

Thanks for all the help.

I know its got to be a typo, but 4" x 6" == 101.6 x 152.4 mm == 10 x 15 cm Aprox.

I have a thing with measurements, and numbers, guess you can all damn my literacy, and punctuation though.

Like I said sure its a typo.

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I'm not all that literate with metric, because it's not my native system. ;-) So yeah, I goofed.

Punctuation? s/b it's, above. Spelling? Aprox -> Approx...