Hi, new member here
(I’m usually the guy that turns up in the bomber jacket on Wednesday’s)
I was wondering if anyone had ever tried using solder masks before using
Vitrea 160 glass paint
I was planning on having a go at some smd devices at some point in the
future
and I figured smd soldering without a mask might be more difficult
in the comments
I admit I might be being a tad over ambitious with this one, but it might
be possible to get some interesting colour effects
(garish rainbow coloured board anyone?)
as an experiment, I’ve got some of those small oled displays from maplins,
that come in packets
and figured I could create something similar to this with a zif socket on
the back
but to get this to work, I might need a toaster oven / air brush (perhaps
just a regular brush would do to start with)
I haven’t worked out the pcb or ordered any paint yet
but does anyone know if the space has a toaster oven knocking about for
curing? or an air brush / air pump?
Also I was wondering when the space was most active?
I’ve been popping in on the Wednesdays during the open day, but I’ll
probably be dropping in more often perhaps during the weekends
is there a list of events or pub nights etc? (I think there’s a 3d Printer
usergroup, and the currybeer social)
I just get my PCBs done in China to avoid any complications with
solder-mask etc.
Soldermasks are very useful if you have small tracks / gaps. Most of the
time stuff
which we can produce in the space does not get to this level. I have done
self-etch
surface mount with SOT23-5 parts, but it is not /easy/ which is why I tend
just to not
try it.
I’ve had reasonable success with 0603 and SSOP20 style devices as well.On 9 February 2014 16:33, garlicbread (Richard) <garlicbready@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi, new member here
(I’m usually the guy that turns up in the bomber jacket on Wednesday’s)
I was wondering if anyone had ever tried using solder masks before using
Vitrea 160 glass paint
I was planning on having a go at some smd devices at some point in the
future
and I figured smd soldering without a mask might be more difficult http://retromaster.wordpress.com/pcb-making/
as an experiment, I’ve got some of those small oled displays from
maplins, that come in packets
and figured I could create something similar to this with a zif socket on
the back http://www.adafruit.com/products/1436
but to get this to work, I might need a toaster oven / air brush (perhaps
just a regular brush would do to start with)
I haven’t worked out the pcb or ordered any paint yet
but does anyone know if the space has a toaster oven knocking about for
curing? or an air brush / air pump?
Also I was wondering when the space was most active?
I’ve been popping in on the Wednesdays during the open day, but I’ll
probably be dropping in more often perhaps during the weekends
is there a list of events or pub nights etc? (I think there’s a 3d Printer
usergroup, and the currybeer social)
Thanks for the info
long term I was looking towards LQFP64 / 0805’s type sizes, I’ve got a few
different ideas for some different boards which involve smd
I used to do a fair bit of soldering a while back but I’m a bit out of
practice
still the ozzy on the EEVBlog made it look fairly easy, so I’ve already
picked up a usb miscroscope and a pair of those smd meter tweezers from
adafruit
any advise on which China suppliers for pcb’s?, and what a typical cost
might be?
I still might give the glass paint approach a go just to see how painful it
is, and to see if I can create a rainbow coloured board just for the hell
of it, but ordering pcb’s from china sounds interestingOn Sunday, February 9, 2014 9:07:47 PM UTC, Ben Dooks wrote:
I just get my PCBs done in China to avoid any complications with
solder-mask etc.
Soldermasks are very useful if you have small tracks / gaps. Most of the
time stuff
which we can produce in the space does not get to this level. I have done
self-etch
surface mount with SOT23-5 parts, but it is not /easy/ which is why I tend
just to not
try it.
I’ve had reasonable success with 0603 and SSOP20 style devices as well.
Hi, new member here
(I’m usually the guy that turns up in the bomber jacket on Wednesday’s)
I was wondering if anyone had ever tried using solder masks before using
Vitrea 160 glass paint
I was planning on having a go at some smd devices at some point in the
future
and I figured smd soldering without a mask might be more difficult http://retromaster.wordpress.com/pcb-making/
as an experiment, I’ve got some of those small oled displays from
maplins, that come in packets
and figured I could create something similar to this with a zif socket on
the back http://www.adafruit.com/products/1436
but to get this to work, I might need a toaster oven / air brush (perhaps
just a regular brush would do to start with)
I haven’t worked out the pcb or ordered any paint yet
but does anyone know if the space has a toaster oven knocking about for
curing? or an air brush / air pump?
Also I was wondering when the space was most active?
I’ve been popping in on the Wednesdays during the open day, but I’ll
probably be dropping in more often perhaps during the weekends
is there a list of events or pub nights etc? (I think there’s a 3d
Printer usergroup, and the currybeer social)
