[Elecraft] Re: Elecraft digest, Vol 1 #333 - 68 msgs

[Helmut Usbeck]

I have one of these punches.  Be careful, these babies will crack a
circuit board, even at a light seeing.  Also they rebound, causing a
double punch.  I speak from experience if one wants one these
types of punches you have to go with a Brown and Williamson. Expensive but works.

--Helm.

 On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Jeremiah
JsCarthy wrote
> General Hardware Manufacturing sells a very handy device they call an
> automatic center punch...It is a spring loaded self impacting center
> punch with adjustable impact from heavy to light...One simply places the
> point of the punch at the spot where the mark is desired and push down on
> the barrel...The tool will "snap", unloading the internal spring loaded
> hammer, leaving a dimple...No hammer is needed and the dimple will be
> exactly where you want it...
>
> Jerry, wa2dkg
> K2 #2549
>
>
> K2VCO asked:
>
> >OK, I'll bite.  HOW do you cut a trace in the middle of an eight-layer
> PCB in
> >any province ("very carefully" is not an acceptable answer)?
>
> Dremel tool & (sorry, must use the word) careful measurement when marking
> the point to be drilled & how far to let the bit to go in.
>
> 73, VR2BrettGraham
>
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