Re: Where's DJ? Was: Re: gEDA-user: home-made dremel "drill press"

2007-04-18 Thread DJ Delorie
Good guesses, Stuart ;-) > Stuart (who thinks DJ is reading books by candlelight right now) Actually, I have an emergency flashlight I read by that doesn't use batteries (it's the type you shake). However, at the time you sent this, I had my fileserver running on generator power and was trying

Re: gEDA-user: home-made dremel "drill press"

2007-04-18 Thread Ben Jackson
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:18:48PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > > right place. The registration was off by about 10 mils, which wasn't > bad, but I'd need to do better to use 13 mil vias (they're just the > right size for wire wrapping wire). I cut the sides a little overside, then line them up us

Re: gEDA-user: home-made dremel "drill press"

2007-04-18 Thread DJ Delorie
> What I do is drill two pilot holes before applying the photoresist > in the unusable border around the circuit and use them to align the > masks before exposure. What I did this time is add some 13 mil vias outside the board (part of my usual process is to panelize two boards with a copper bord

Where's DJ? Was: Re: gEDA-user: home-made dremel "drill press"

2007-04-17 Thread Stuart Brorson
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, John Coppens wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:50:27 -0400 Darryl Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is the site down? I can't seem to connect... I'm getting "unable to connect" errors too. Hmmm... I have the impression that DJ disappeared simultaneously! I can't speak fo

Re: gEDA-user: home-made dremel "drill press"

2007-04-17 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:50:27 -0400 Darryl Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is the site down? I can't seem to connect... > > I'm getting "unable to connect" errors too. Hmmm... I have the impression that DJ disappeared simultaneously! John ___ g

Re: gEDA-user: home-made dremel "drill press"

2007-04-16 Thread Darryl Gibson
John Coppens wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:36:32 -0400 > DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> http://www.delorie.com/pcb/dremel-stand/ > > Hi DJ. > > Is the site down? I can't seem to connect... I'm getting "unable to connect" errors too. -- Darryl Gibson N2DIY RLU X 182668/379552 “A

Re: gEDA-user: home-made dremel "drill press"

2007-04-16 Thread John Coppens
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:36:32 -0400 DJ Delorie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.delorie.com/pcb/dremel-stand/ Hi DJ. Is the site down? I can't seem to connect... John ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-

Re: gEDA-user: home-made dremel "drill press"

2007-04-16 Thread Tomaz Solc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi > I'm thinking of switching from toner transfer to photomask. Then, I > can drill the board first and use the holes to line up the print. I've been using masks almost exclusively to make my boards. I don't think that drilling holes for componen

Re: gEDA-user: home-made dremel "drill press"

2007-04-15 Thread DJ Delorie
> > I'm still dreaming of a CNC machine. > You mean as a "fun project"? Partly. I do woodworking too, so a CNC platform would have multiple uses. > Sure. That plus some kind of x-y carriage... Are you aiming at > super low cost for free-publishing and buildable by almost all? I have no defi

Re: gEDA-user: home-made dremel "drill press"

2007-04-15 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: Will you add a foot treadle? I have one and it allows 2 hands, so more speed of going from hole to hole... for manually drilling prototype boards... I thought of it, but I couldn't figure out an easy way to hook it all together. I'm still dreaming of a CNC machine. You mea

Re: gEDA-user: home-made dremel "drill press"

2007-04-15 Thread DJ Delorie
> Will you add a foot treadle? I have one and it allows 2 hands, so > more speed of going from hole to hole... for manually drilling > prototype boards... I thought of it, but I couldn't figure out an easy way to hook it all together. I'm still dreaming of a CNC machine. I figure if I do the Z

Re: gEDA-user: home-made dremel "drill press"

2007-04-15 Thread John Griessen
DJ Delorie wrote: I made something simple that would just hold the dremel steady so I didn't snap any more drill bits. That's a nice low cost design DJ. Congrats. Will you add a foot treadle? I have one and it allows 2 hands, so more speed of going from hole to hole... for manually drilling

gEDA-user: home-made dremel "drill press"

2007-04-15 Thread DJ Delorie
http://www.delorie.com/pcb/dremel-stand/ My big drill press has too much runout for the tiny drill bits, and my hand isn't steady enough to drill manually with the dremel. So, I made something simple that would just hold the dremel steady so I didn't snap any more drill bits. I drilled a couple