On 01/08/2011, yamazakir2 <yamazak...@gmail.com> wrote: > Still looking for suggestions for assembly besides 4pcb.
Do you really have to have it done externally? I gave up, and do it in-house, mostly to avoid the pain that is kitting, exporting data, waiting and hoping. Cheapest: Plastic solder paste stencils are cheap and good enough for small runs. No need for a luxurious printer, just tape the stencil to the board, and apply solder paste with the edge of a plastic card. Hand place the components Reflow it in a toaster oven. Total investment probably less than £150, and some time. My approach: £40 for a stainless stencil (per job) pick & place on a £3000 machine from ebay http://search.ebay.co.uk/170659568094 manual stencil printer, and batch oven off ebay. Manual placement machines exist, and are far faster than tweezers. They're expensive, though, normally about £1000 on ebay, since they're so useful. Quite soon, I'll be needing to use gEDA to generate pick & place files. Will report back :) (centroid-based is sort of OK, but other packages also generate synthetic centroids, based on the extents of copper pads - this rescues things when library parts are done with pin 1 centred, or some other seemingly sensible scheme...) Steve _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user