Re: Solder paste storage
We always leave the tip on, it does dry up and then you need to change it,
but it takes weeks or months in the fridge.
Usually you can still dispense the somewhat dried paste out of the tip
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stefan_trethan <stefan_trethan@...>
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#36305
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
I'm a big fan of sheet metal nibblers such as this one at Amazon:
<https://www.amazon.com/Sheet-Metal-Nibbling-Nibbler-Cutter/dp/B00WFFZ2X8>
Drill (or punch) holes in the PCB material to insert the
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Ben Hall <kd5byb@...>
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#36304
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
The following procedure works great for any manual cutting or drilling, sheet metal or PCB:
Create a 2D CAD layout of the object to be made in a 1 to 1 scale. Any free or other CAD packages can do
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Bertho
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#36303
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
I've done the hole cutting with a coping saw. My method is to score the
copper
on just one side so I'll have a neat line as a reference. I saw just
"inside" the line
and then finish with a
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Charlie Hansen
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#36302
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Re: Solder paste storage
I don't know if this will work for solder paste, but *might* be worth a
try.....
I keep RTV silicone for many months by filling the cap with petrolium
jelly
then screw on the cap. The idea being to
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Charlie Hansen
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#36301
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
Hi Jim
Have a look
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[email protected]
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#36300
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
Jim,
The Dremel type saw blades are still available. Do an ebay search for Dremel diamond blades, and you will find listings for 22mm, 30mm, 40 mm and 60mm wheels.? I have bought these, and they are
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Harvey Altstadter
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#36299
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
I tried a dremel scroll saw for cutting a PC board.? Blade was toast within seconds.
Exactly, although there are some heavy duty ones that are more tolerant.? That's why I sa
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Harvey White
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#36298
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
Jim, How are you !
try pcb dremel with circular cutter . Pre mark with marker pen. You can
make sharp edge scrapping using ruler support.
later pass the circular cutter thro the path created by
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MVS Sarma
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#36297
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Re: Solder paste storage
I leave the tip on. You could take it off but then you'd have to clean it
out because after awhile the solder particles will migrate to the low side.
73! Mark KA6WKE
Website:
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Mark Schoonover
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#36296
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
Because the LCD cutout is something like 75mm x 25mm I don't think I could find a tile saw blade that would be usable for such a small cutout.? I have an old Dremel router base but figured trying to
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Jim Pruitt WA7DUY
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#36295
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
Fair enough, filing is not trivial. During my marine engineering course we had to use hand file to file a 5mm thick metal plate about 50mmx50mm to a specific shape with angles etc to withing 0.1mm ton
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Cornelis van Rensburg
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#36294
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
Do you have a link to the milling bits that you use?
Thank you.
Jim
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Jim Pruitt WA7DUY
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#36293
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
I tried that (coping saw and file) but the hole did not come out quite square.
Jim
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Jim Pruitt WA7DUY
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#36292
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
Sorry I mixed the inch fraction. The milling bits I used were 1/8". I am still using them on my cnc router.
Jean-Claude
Am 23.06.2019 um 19:04 schrieb casy_ch@...:
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[email protected]
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#36291
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
Before I had a cnc router I made cuttings on a small stand drilling machine using small milling bits of 3/8in.
First a piece of thin plywood and on top fixing a flat bar either of wood or aluminium
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[email protected]
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Solder paste storage
Hello all,
I have this
tube of solder paste acquired from amazon. It came with five
19-gauge dispensing tips. I have used some of the paste today,
dispensing it with one of
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Steve <steve65@...>
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#36289
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
Use coping saw and cut an undersize square/rectangle then file it to dimension...
Carefully...
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Cornelis van Rensburg
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#36288
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
The best answer is that if you have a mill, you find a 1/8 inch carbide pc rasp/router bit and mill the hole.? Carbide is very fragile but very hard, so while it lasts a long time, it's easy to
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Harvey White
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#36287
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Re: How do you make nice clean cutouts in pc board material?
That looks like a good method. I do not see the CedarLam brand but I see similar tools on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Timberline+20003&ref=nb_sb_noss_2. (
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wb8nbs
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#36286
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