Drilling P.C. Boards (tips solicited)
I am presently using small perforated breadboards that occasionally need the perforations enlarged for leads of larger devices such as diodes and resistors. Do I really need carbide drills and an e...
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WyoTraveler wrote:
I think he is using perforated bread boards not printed circuit boards. Enlarging the holes to fit his pin size. Hard to find a lot of that stuff anymore in this throw away world.
Understood.
However I was giving Mex some ideas for DIY purpose made boards for future use. Helps a lot with repeatability when you are trying to make more than one off..
The downside to those newer solder pad perf boards is that the copper doughnut is just barely bigger than the hole. That means drilling out the holes even slightly larger will result in very little copper pad to solder to. Older perf boards years ago there was bigger solder pads..
For small bits you can get a dremel set which goes from 1/32 to 1/8..
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Pretty much should cover any needs for circuit board usage.
