Re: gEDA-user: wacky (or not?) solder stencil ideas

2008-02-16 Thread Dave N6NZ
John E. Perry wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> ... >> 2) Slap it in the laser cutter, and print the paste layer on it with >> just enough laser power to blast away the blue paint. (The CO2 laser is >> the wrong wavelength for cutting metal, it just reflects off.) >> > > The CO2 laser is t

Re: gEDA-user: wacky (or not?) solder stencil ideas

2008-02-16 Thread John E. Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > 2) Slap it in the laser cutter, and print the paste layer on it with > just enough laser power to blast away the blue paint. (The CO2 laser is > the wrong wavelength for cutting metal, it just reflects off.) > The CO2 laser is the standard tool for metal cuttin

Re: gEDA-user: wacky (or not?) solder stencil ideas

2008-02-15 Thread andrewm
> Dave wrote: > > and paint both sides with "machinists' blue stuff" -- I'm > not sure what it's properly called Prussian Blue. Though not the neo-nazi/white-power rock band. > > The CO2 laser is the wrong wavelength for cutting > metal, it just reflects off.)> The CO2 laser will cut m

Re: gEDA-user: wacky (or not?) solder stencil ideas

2008-02-15 Thread Dave N6NZ
DJ Delorie wrote: > For my sized boards, I usually end up with one web etched through > somewhere and one hole elsewhere not etched through. Same deal with laser cut mylar. I just tweak and recut until I get something that works. For TQFP, I make the pads very narrow since they bloom due to

Re: gEDA-user: wacky (or not?) solder stencil ideas

2008-02-15 Thread DJ Delorie
> Actually, TechShop is gearing up for franchising. By next year this > time, you, too might have a TechShop close by. Warning: time sink > ahead. :) Are you kidding? I don't even have a Starbucks nearby. Not that I wouldn't mind opening a TS franchise, but I don't think there's enough market

Re: gEDA-user: wacky (or not?) solder stencil ideas

2008-02-15 Thread Dave N6NZ
DJ Delorie wrote: >> Yesterday while I was at the TechShop experimenting with the laser >> cutter > > You suck ;-) :) Actually, TechShop is gearing up for franchising. By next year this time, you, too might have a TechShop close by. Warning: time sink ahead. :) Yesterday they were checking

Re: gEDA-user: wacky (or not?) solder stencil ideas

2008-02-15 Thread Dave McGuire
On Feb 15, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Dave N6NZ wrote: > Yesterday while I was at the TechShop experimenting with the laser > cutter and talking about solder stencils with other folks, this idea > came up: *grumble*...living in a gorgeous area but it's a technological wasteland...*growl* > 1) Take 3mil

Re: gEDA-user: wacky (or not?) solder stencil ideas

2008-02-15 Thread DJ Delorie
> Yesterday while I was at the TechShop experimenting with the laser > cutter You suck ;-) > 2) Slap it in the laser cutter, and print the paste layer on it with > just enough laser power to blast away the blue paint. (The CO2 laser is > the wrong wavelength for cutting metal, it just reflec

gEDA-user: wacky (or not?) solder stencil ideas

2008-02-15 Thread Dave N6NZ
Yesterday while I was at the TechShop experimenting with the laser cutter and talking about solder stencils with other folks, this idea came up: 1) Take 3mil brass sheet, and paint both sides with "machinists' blue stuff" -- I'm not sure what it's properly called, but it's a blue paint that th