Date   : Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:50:23 +0200 (BST)
From   : johan@... (Johan Heuseveldt)
Subject: BBC Master SCSI

Hi,

On Mon 01 Jun, Mark Haysman wrote:

> I presume you're referring to the Tooling charge, where you send the CAD 
> files to them and they make the board from that? You're not sending them a 
> blank PCB to copy are you?
> 
> The PCB houses I've worked with have always done their own in-house Tooling, 
> and usually costs around the ?60 mark for smallish boards, and is a one-off. 
> The economy of scale dicatates that they will make a certain amount of PCBs 
> per "run", so if you only order 20, they may end up making 50, and charging 
> you a lot more per board for those 20 than they would if you took the full 
> 50, as they're not wasting any.
> 
> There are PCB houses in China which are cheap and cheerful, but it's always 
> a case of "you get what you pay for", and they take longer too.

Check out <http://www/elektorpcbservice.com>

though I'm not sure if this is Netherlands-only, or world wide.
The dot com seems to suggests the latter to me.


[big snip]


Greetings,
Johan

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