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Re: PCB's

7/9/2000 4:36 AM
Steve Daniels (Small Bear Electronics)	Re: PCB's I prefer the "Absolutely Positive" Photo Resist method described on my site: http://home.netcom.com/~smallbearelec I admire the perseverance of some of my fellow fanatics; getting accurate, fine lines with the sharpie method is tough, IMO. Good tool for correcting mistakes, though. At some point, learn to use a CAD program. Keen and others like Easy Trax, while I have standardized on WinBoard. They make it easy to get fine, accurate lines, and WinBoard comes with a large library of standard component outlines. You can create your board and your component layout drawing at the same time. I'm sure other programs have similar features. Good luck!

7/9/2000 4:36 AM

Steve Daniels (Small Bear Electronics)

Re: PCB's

I prefer the "Absolutely Positive" Photo Resist method described on my site:

http://home.netcom.com/~smallbearelec

I admire the perseverance of some of my fellow fanatics; getting accurate, fine lines with the sharpie method is tough, IMO. Good tool for correcting mistakes, though.

At some point, learn to use a CAD program. Keen and others like Easy Trax, while I have standardized on WinBoard. They make it easy to get fine, accurate lines, and WinBoard comes with a large library of standard component outlines. You can create your board and your component layout drawing at the same time. I'm sure other programs have similar features. Good luck!

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Ryan L. What's he building in there???? -- 7/9/2000 6:05 AM
R.G. Photo postive method -- 7/9/2000 4:31 PM