Boardmaker disk
Then the drill bit will actually drill a hole in the fiberglass circuit board material. Your drill bit will pass through a hole in the mask. Mask tip: I use a red sharpie pen and connect all the dots on my mask so it is easy to see the holes that have to be drilled.ĭrill all the holes that are on your mask using a 3/32" drill bit. There are over 500 holes in the drilling template but you only want to You will be drilling only the holes that the mask has on its surface. You should now have a stack with the blank circuitīoard on the bottom, the metal drilling template in the middle and the fiberglass-drilling mask on the top. Slide the fiberglass-drilling mask onto the two alignment pins. Slide the metal drilling template down onto the two alignment pins. You will have an alignment pin at each end of your circuit board. Put an alignment pin into each of the pilot holes that you drilled in your circuit board. If the lugs will not go into the hole or are difficult to press into the hole, Eventually the drill bit will not be useable because the drilled hole size will be too small. Tip: The more you use your 3/32 drill bit, the smaller the outside diameter will The two pilot holes I always drill are the first lug at the left edge of the board and the first lug at the right edge of the board.Īfter drilling the two pilot holes, unclamp the drilling template from your circuit board. This line of holes is always used on all my board kits so there is no danger of drillingĪ hole in the board that will not be used. I always use the line of holes that are 20mm down from the top edge of the drilling template.
BOARDMAKER DISK INSTALL
Holes that you drill are holes that you will be using to install lugs into so only drill a hole at each end of your board that are actually holes used in the circuit that you are While the board is clamped to the drilling template, drill a pilot hole at each end of your circuit board using a 3/32" drill bit. You always use the left end of the drilling template as your starting point. You will align and clamp the board in the upper left corner of the drilling template. Sand the ends of the board square on the 9" disk and I sand the long edges on the 6" x 48" belt.Ĭlamp your blank piece of board to the rear of the drilling template. I use a bench top sander that has a 9" round disk and a long 6" x 48" belt. Sand the ends of the board so that they are nice and square and to the proper length. Most likely you will not be able to cut the ends of the board perfectly square so cut your board a bit longer. The circuit board material is very hard and dense. I use a jigsaw with a fine tooth blade that is able to cut metal See this page.Ĭut your piece of 1/8" thick circuit board a tiny bit longer than the finished length. Radio shack part number 64-009A works fine.ġ small and 1 large component lead bender. Radio shack 64-2071C 40W iron works great. Radio shack sells small spools of buss wire.Ĥ0 watt soldering iron.
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See the photo below.Ģ4 gauge bare buss wire.
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You could probably use tape if you were careful so that pieces do not move while drilling the two alignment holes.īent tip needle nose pliers. (included with drilling template)Ī clamping device like a vice grip or something similar. The mask looks like a drilled circuitīoard with all the 3/32 holes, but it is only 1/16" thick. The mask is a fiberglass template that only has the holes for the particular circuit board that you are building.
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This is the tool that makes it all possible. This 1/4 inch thick metal item that has over 500 holes in it. I will first define the items you will be using.Ī piece of 1/8" thick glass/epoxy circuit board material. To follow along with these pages you should go here to the library page and print out the layout diagram for the 5F6A Bassman board. Page - Board - Board - Board - Board -īoard - Board - Board This page needs JavaScript to function properly