[DARARepeater] CNC for PC Board Production

[Mike Suhar]

I use a board house (Seeed) but sometimes I want a quick simple board that
does not have any dense surface mount IC packages. Being able to mill one
out would come in handy. As far as the CNC machine it would find many uses
in woodworking.  The cost would not be just for PC boards.

Mike
W8RKO


On Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 18:51 Ed Fix <edfix at infinet.com> wrote:

> Yeah, it's easier and to have someone else make the PC boards, but it's
> not as much fun.  Pretty much everything we do in ham radio can be done
> easier some other way, but it's not as much fun.
>
> Ed
>
> On Wed, 2020-08-19 at 18:11 -0400, Jan Servaites wrote:
> > There are also PC board vendors out there (I use them a lot!) that
> > will make the boards for you! And to mention all the other steps to
> > make a good, custom PC board to include plated through holes, solder
> > mask, tinned plating, silk screened nomenclature on top & bottom
> > sides, and so on and so on.
> > For the cost of your cnc router, you could have had hundreds of
> > professionally made PC boards and delivered.
> >
> > Jan N8CBX
> >
> > On 8/19/2020 10:34 AM, Mike Suhar wrote:
> > > There are a few YouTube videos on milling pc boards with hobby CNC
> > > machines. They talk about what worked and what did not. I gather
> > > that it take a lot of practice and experimenting to get it right.
> > > But once you got it down you are all set.
> > >
> > > Mike
> > > W8RKO
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 08:40 Mark Erbaugh <mark.election at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > I ordered a desktop CNC mill to mill PC Boards.
> > > >
> > > > https://www.sainsmart.com/collections/genmitsu-cnc/products/sains
> > > > mart-genmitsu-cnc-router-3018-pro-diy-kit
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any experience to share?  Any special type of PC
> > > > Board material to use? What milling bits? Any other helpful
> > > > details on setting this up?
> > > >
> > > > 73,
> > > > Mark, N8ME
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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