Reproduction of Circuit Boards

[Wayne Sushak]

Hello all...

Have been searching for a way to do this for a long time, for various
projects.  Finally decided to go for it this year.  Forgive me, but am
starting with the TA-16 guitar amp (I have 6).  Will follow with the SB104A
series later.  Have found a local outfit that has a very high resolution
commercial scanner (something like 12,000 x 12,000) coupled to a CAD system
coupled to an automated board production system.  The TA-16 board will cost
me $200 for the scan/database creation, and $300 for the first five boards
produced (obviously, they get cheaper in quantity).  The boards will be
duplicates of the original except that they will be glass epoxy (instead of
paper phenolic) with a mask on the back (for those who don't know, a mask
is a coating that means only the copper where the holes exist are exposed
to the air).  They will also include the full silk screen of the front side
of the board.  My next gambit will probably be the SBA-104-1 Noise Blanker
as I am missing 3 for the five 104A's I have.  With any luck, will try to
have the 104 series done over the next two to three years or sooner as the
finances allow.  Don't hold me to anything, but will do the best I can (now
to decide which of the 104A's to cannibalize to do this....having seen me
disassemble one of the TA-16s, I think they are trembling...).  Any
comments would be appreciated....

BTW, massive kudos to Mike  (WB8VGE)  http://www.theheathkitshop.com/  for
the display board for the SB-104A series (and I don't even know him).  I
have several replacement gas discharge displays for this series, but have
been waiting a long time for a LED replacement board.

(Mike:  please use real GENERIC parts, make 'em cheap & make 'em available,
...pant - pant)

...wayne

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