Quote Originally Posted by Doddy View Post
Drilling?, if only we had a machine that could do all that for us :-)
You have. It's called a CNC router. The trick is making the machine and your ability to register a pre-etched circuit board on it accurate enough. Something I haven't even atempted yet.

I do like using the solder paste. That and a gas soldering iron with a hot-air head makes hand-soldering SOIC chips nice sand easy and the 1.27mm (thats 0.05 inch for our 19th century readers) pad spacing is reliably makeable using the toner-transfer method for DIY circuit boards....without holes!!!

Kit