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From: ctall31724

To: Electronics_101@...

Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:43 PM

Subject: [Electronics_101] Re: pcb drilling machine

Say, on PCB drilling machines.? I'm pretty much a newbie at this
stuff, but I am getting geared up to have the capibility to produce
my own electronic boards from scratch.? I share your understanding
that the hole drilling part is a significant part of this
prototyping thing.
?
Last night while searching for bench drill presses that accept a
Demeral drill motor, my search was "Demeral Bench Drill Presses", I
couldn't find the link for the page address, but I found a site
selling a gantry style PCB drilling machine that communicates with
popular software. It had several versions.? a Stepper version and a
couple others.? cost was around 4000$ US for the stepper version.??

Then I surfed to a forem that had a lenghthy discussion about
building
these from scratch.? This discussion group is currently cleared many
of the design hurdles, have dones some construction on a device and
are working on an open source software.? Their mission, as I
understood it was to cooperatively engineer both hardware and
software for a device nuckleheads like myself can build, download
this software and achieve drilling narvona.

I will search for this link, I thought I saved it.

I've also purchsed a c84 epson ink jet printer on e-bay and I'm
waiting for? more info on the great ink jet break through.



--- In Electronics_101@..., "joe amodeo"
wrote:
>
> I'm considering building a gantry style PCB drilling machine.
> I envision selling the machine with steppers mounted, no computer
or
OS.
>
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
> Joe
>