6 Mar
2012
6 Mar
'12
6:58 p.m.
On 6 Mar 2012 at 16:40, allison wrote:
I use spool wire, a few colors, hand stripper of the
automatic type,
and a OKtool manual (you squeeze to spin the bit) and good gold tail
sockets. Even now it's less expensive to equip to do that than buy the
soldering gear and all.
Sometimes for prototypes, I use socket pins and single-sided blank
FR4 PCB stock. Drill holes for the pins with a #49 drill--releive
the holes slightly on the copper side with a quick twist of a larger
bit, shove the pins in, use the copper as a ground plane. The result
looks very nice.
But you can get good results with an $8 Radio Shack wire wrap tool
that includes a stripper.
The nice thing about wire wrap is that you can use different colors
for different signals. Makes debugging a little easier.
Repairs/modifications are easy--no soldering involved.
(I use a G-D electric gun and an Augat stripper). I've got boards
that I assembled more than 20 years ago still working fine.
--Chuck