hobby pcb fabrication kits

[DG]

Any suggestions for starting up a little hobby setup for making PCBs? I
was thinking of getting the MG Chemicals 416-K kit. Comes with 3
sensitized copper-clad (single-sided boards), developer, ferric chloride,
foam brushes, rubber gloves. Any reason to not use ferric chloride, and
maybe sodium persulfate instead? I'm something economical to make little
boards for PICs and some peripheral circuitry, preferable, it would be
possible to make pads for little ICs SSOP, TSOP, etc...

If you don't know answers but know websites, those are appreciated as well.

Thanks,
David

 

[mike]

DG wrote:

Any suggestions for starting up a little hobby setup for making PCBs? I
was thinking of getting the MG Chemicals 416-K kit. Comes with 3
sensitized copper-clad (single-sided boards), developer, ferric chloride,
foam brushes, rubber gloves. Any reason to not use ferric chloride, and
maybe sodium persulfate instead? I'm something economical to make little
boards for PICs and some peripheral circuitry, preferable, it would be
possible to make pads for little ICs SSOP, TSOP, etc...

If you don't know answers but know websites, those are appreciated as well.

Thanks,
David

Here's an excellent forum for such discussions

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBs/messages
mike

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[Rene Tschaggelar]

DG wrote:

Any suggestions for starting up a little hobby setup for making PCBs? I
was thinking of getting the MG Chemicals 416-K kit. Comes with 3
sensitized copper-clad (single-sided boards), developer, ferric chloride,
foam brushes, rubber gloves. Any reason to not use ferric chloride, and
maybe sodium persulfate instead? I'm something economical to make little
boards for PICs and some peripheral circuitry, preferable, it would be
possible to make pads for little ICs SSOP, TSOP, etc...

If you don't know answers but know websites, those are appreciated as well.

You shouldn't target smaller structures than 15mil
trace width and 15mil trace distance. The narrower holes
shouldn't be below 28mils.

Rene
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[Leon Heller]

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DG wrote:

Any suggestions for starting up a little hobby setup for making PCBs? I
was thinking of getting the MG Chemicals 416-K kit. Comes with 3
sensitized copper-clad (single-sided boards), developer, ferric chloride,
foam brushes, rubber gloves. Any reason to not use ferric chloride, and
maybe sodium persulfate instead? I'm something economical to make little
boards for PICs and some peripheral circuitry, preferable, it would be
possible to make pads for little ICs SSOP, TSOP, etc...

If you don't know answers but know websites, those are appreciated as
well.

You shouldn't target smaller structures than 15mil
trace width and 15mil trace distance. The narrower holes
shouldn't be below 28mils.

I don't have any problems with 12/12 mil tracks, and can go down to 10 mils,
with my home-made PCBs.

Leon