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RoyJ wrote:

Make that .067"/.134"
http://www.national.com/packaging/mkt/ta11b.pdf

Of course what I REALLY want is one of the Protoboard places that will
do this cheaply for quantity 6!!! Trying for under a couple hundred for
6 boards.

RoyJ wrote:
I have a robotic vehicle control box that I farmed out to the EE boys.
They designed it with some factory 'H' gate integrated circuits, the
hole spacing is a weird as it can be. (IIRC its .150" C to C, two rows)
So now it is getting kicked back to me to deal with a PC board. I'm
wondering about just milling the foil on one side of a PC, drill the
holes? the circuit is no big deal, big need is to mount the IC on a
standard PC board for reliability. Board size is around 3"x4" I have 2
Haas mills (VF-0 and TM-1), Solidworks, and Gibscam.


12 square inches. 6 boards. With barely any looking at all:

www.PCBExpress.com

2 layer, no soldermask, no silkscreen 6 boards $123 +shipping

2 layer, soldermask, silkscreen 6 boards $258 +shipping

Get the size down to 9 square inches and save some money, or go as big
as 19 for the same money.

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www.expresspcb.com does slightly smaller boards at $59.60 for 3
delivered- size 2.5"x3.8" (exactly) no soldermask or silkscreen.

For soldermask and silkscreen, the protopro service will do batches of 4
at $179 +ship - you might make each delivered board be two boards you
cut apart and get 8, if you can get the size down to 10.5 sq inches (max
of 21 in this price/production class).

There are others, depending on where you want to go and how fast you
want to ship. www.olimex.com is in Bulgaria, for instance - and will
give you as many of your little boards as fit in a 12.6x7.8 inch
rectangle (cut apart by them), with soldermask and silkscreen, for $132
(plus shipping). I think you can get at least 6 3x4 boards out of that
panel - 8 if you shrink the 4 inch dimension just a touch.

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