From time to time I need to make Printed Circuit Boards.

While using board manufacturing sites produces great boards at a reasonable cost and in just a week or so this isn’t necessarily suitable for prototyping or low complexity, low run, single or double layer boards.  I can usually turn out a prototype with 0.01” track spacing from art work to assembled in just a few hours.

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Making Printed Circuit Boards

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PCB Optical Drilling using a Dremel Press

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Reflow Soldering using a Toaster Oven

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In recent times (Aug 18) I have invested some time and effort into improving the quality and capability of my existing process, incorporating dry film resists, CNC drilled and milled boards, through hole plating and CNC direct laser exposure.  The purpose of this work is to improve the quality and reliability of my process with faster concept to prototype production at reduced cost.  This development is ongoing but I will be documenting the process improvements on the following pages.

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CNC Milling, Drilling and  Exposure

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Dry Film Processes

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Through-Hole Plating

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PCB Guillotine

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Tool Chain

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Process Overview