Re: Through hole plating

On Dec 16, 7:39 am, JeffM <jef...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you *don't* need prototypes RIGHT THIS MINUTE
(like you can wait a few days),
look into the pricing of professionally-done PWBs.

I use www.pcbcart.com in China for my personal project boards, not
that expensive in the scheme of things.
There are many others around at competitive prices too.

Since fab houses have been set up (several years now)
in e.g. Bulgaria and China, the prices of PWBs have gone WAY down.
Turnaround time too.
Domestic fab houses have also had to get more competitive.

As the pros get increasingly competitive,
most of the DIY stuff has fallen by the wayside.

I've got to agree. I don't know why anyone would bother making their
own boards these days.
If it's a simple board and you just have to have it in a few hours
then fair enough. But don't bother with plating, soldering the feed-
throughs yourself is good enough for a quick'n'dirty proto.

Dave.
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