Comments on: Cutting and Depanelizing PCBs

By: Winston

November 4, 2012, 4:11 pm

and $150 ain’t a bad price, either.

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By: Lorinc Del Motte

November 4, 2012, 4:35 pm

Mike, of Mikeselectricstuff uses a table saw to cut his PCBs.

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By: Randy Farmer

November 4, 2012, 5:02 pm

I use a guillotine stye paper cutter for PCBs. Nice break/shear though. Wish there was a 12″ version. That would be a perfect small shop size combo.

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By: Hackaday Links: November 4, 2012 | Cool Internet Projects

November 4, 2012, 5:31 pm

[...] horrors – depanelizing PCBs is a pain if you don’t have the right tool. Over at Hub City Labs they’re using a small, cheap metal shear break. Bonus: it can cut and bend sheet metal, so the Hub...

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By: JammitTimmaj

November 4, 2012, 6:02 pm

I’ve cut a long slot in a plank of wood. The slot is a little over the width of a circuit board. I insert the circuit board into the slot, but only far enough to reach the circuit board perforations. I...

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By: Fernando Baltazar

November 4, 2012, 11:08 pm

PCB can be cutted with a sharped metal like a knife, mark both sides as glass (a little deep) try to bend and pcb is broken like a glass or ceramic tile.

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By: Hackaday Links: November 4, 2012 | Orange Claymore Red Slime

November 5, 2012, 1:17 am

[...] horrors – depanelizing PCBs is a pain if you don’t have the right tool. Over at Hub City Labs they’re using a small, cheap metal shear & break. Bonus: it can cut and bend sheet metal, so the...

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By: Peter Simpson

November 5, 2012, 3:50 am

Sawing PCBs is a terrible idea unless you have very good dust extraction. Breathing epoxy-glass dust isn’t healthy. Bending them to break at perforations works IF there are no SMT or fine pitch...

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