Re: gEDA-user: Looking for PCB fab recommendations

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ineiev wrote:
> On 6/19/09, Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:52:10AM +0000, Michael Sokolov wrote:
>>> * Both plated and unplated drill. Some parts have plastic mounting
>>>   elements and I want unplated holes for those.
>> Get all your holes plated and drill out your mounting holes
>> by hand.  Otherwise you will end up with a more expensive process.
> 
> BTW why unplated holes may be preferable for this case?

I always figured it was so the holes wouldn't get filled up if the board 
were wave soldered.  But then again, I never cared enough to ask our 
producibility guys at work why they wanted un-plated mounting holes.

-Dan


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