Just get some perfboard and wire it point to point, much easier than trying
this foolishness.

"Ross Matheson" wrote in message
...
"Geoff Wood" -nospam wrote:

: Any number of electronic supplies companies sell raw PCB (clad) . Why
not
: actually make a PCB (easy-peasy) or strip the PCB down to fibreglass
with
: etchant, if you are dead set on doing this point-to-point thing.

No funds to buy new PCB. Not up to making a PCB now, later sure.
Stripping with the iron is right here, easy and a small time expenditure.

: The whole concept of ripping traces off ready made ( esp lacquered) PCBs
it
: just too bizarre (not to mention time-consuming) to contemplate, for me.
: And even then, you'll end up with fibreglass board with a bunch of
unrelated
: holes in it. Do it 'properly' in the first place.

Ah, it's just an exploratory one-off, so far, naive as that may seem -
it's
a cheap kick-in to actually beginning prototyping, don't worry about it:-)

: Or get phenolic tag-strips and do point-to-point wiring like they did
: before PCBs were common.

I have some - and I have a guillotine that I may be able to chop this
with.
The tags I have are better than the tag-strips. Extra holes are no
problem.
Most of the traces are wide and easy. Still, I understand your reaction:=)
It's just a no/low-cost trial, utilising the available resources:=})

: geoff

Thanks,
ross