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Re: gEDA-user: Looking for my first fab shop.



On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 13:30 -0500, Jim wrote:
> Are there any fab shops that would be gentle with a very new, very 
> inexperienced PCB designer? OH and reasonable for a prototype. Last
> time I laid up a board I used a drafting table and mylar.  I may need
> a bit of handholding as I go along.

In my experience, most PCB manufacturers cope with "newbies" reasonably
well.  Is it in their interest to do so!

In the UK there's PCB Train: http://www.pcbtrain.co.uk/  They at least
have a web interface that'll immediately generate a quote for you, and
take design submissions through the website.  A number of friends and
myself have used them fairly regularly.  Their express service is
extremely useful and cheap!

The one thing that you should make sure you're aware of is that paying
the extra for electrical test is going to be worth it.  PCB Train will
sell (and I'm sure other manufacturers will too) you boards that haven't
been electrically tested, which I've been stung by in past.  It's not
pleasant having to manually beep every via on a board with a
multi-meter!

Rob

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