I already have
boards sitting around from several projects,
representing hundreds of dollars of investment on my part,
that may never "sell" (even at cost).
Just what do you have?
I still have some W076 and M452 replacements, some of each of the
Blinkenlights boards, and a big pile of paddle cards for making
DEC Negibus and Posibus cables. (The paddle cards are a bigger
pile, since they get used 10 and 20 at a time.)
I also have the prototype boards for the 8/A console, and for
the Posibus RX01/RX02, but those probably shouldn't count, as
I haven't tried to recover costs for those yet :-).
(Anyone know of
a shop that can do a
double-sided 16" board with solder mask and without a steep
setup charge?)
If you try Canada you can get 14x17 inch boards done.
http://www.apcircuits.com/
Thanks! That place has reasonable prices for a couple of boards,
but shot up fast if I wanted 5 or 10.
The other major
ticket item for this project is the front
plate. Anyone know where we can get those done inexpensively?
What about a local machine shop?
I wish I knew someone at a local machine shop. I figure that if
I approach them as a regular customer, they are going to have to
quote me about what FPExpress does, to make it worth their time.
I'd love to be proven wrong about that (but I haven't done the
legwork to find out).
Vince