G-10 board

[gsr]

Ridout plastics has it too. I bought a square foot of 3/32" for around $11. Enough for at least four boards. They have 1/16" also. Jigsaw with metal blade was easy way to cut it.

[safire]

Hi Gsr

We don't stock the material, although we can get it. I was responding to the original post about how to cut G10 / FR4 laminate.

We offer a precision Waterjet cutting service to people that need accurate parts cut, you can supply your own materials which we will cut at your risk or we can buy them in and supply you the materials as well.

If you look at the enclosed picture you will see the puzzle part at the bottom of the screen is FR4 laminate 2.4mm thick and it is approximately 40mm x 40mm in size, you will see the small holes we waterjet cut in it. With the 9x9 hole grid these holes are pierced holes where we just Peirce the FR4 with the high pressure water jet, they measure about 1.2mm in diameter, they are very close together and it is hard to do and can cause breakages, but we did this to demonstrate the process to a customer.

Sometimes cutting this material needs a bit of setting up, test cuts and jigs.

I realise that a lot of people will cut this by hand tools in there home workshops, but care must be taken with the dust created. We offer a profesional precision cutting service at safire waterjet.

With Waterjet profiling / waterjet cutting, we can work to exact dimension to within 0.2mm and offer repeatability on batch parts.

We can also offer to design your parts in 3d cad with our design engineering services see: Safire design engineers

I hope some people find this useful please contact us if you need parts cut.

regards

Adrian

[Chuck H]

I thought I was going ghetto when I bought my G-10 because I chose 1/16" even though I read a lot of threads/posts where home brewers were using 1/8". I'm sure glad I did though. Working with 1/16" is loads easier and I can't imagine there will ever be a durability issue.

Almost any plastic or plasic fabrication shop (like you might find in a "business park" or the industrial district of most cities) will carry it. Forget the hobby places like Tap Plastics and such.

I can't remember the name of the place where I bought mine, but it went just as desribed above. I looked up "plastic" in my local phone book and found a shop in an industrial area that sold it. I paid about $130.00 for two 4'x4' sheets of 1/16" G-10. I bought this many years ago when I built my first scratch design. I've been building a lot of amps lately too and I haven't even used half of one sheet yet. Great value like this if you don't mind cutting it yourself.

I use my Dremel with the fiberglass reinforced cutoff wheels. I cut a fraction oversize and then lay a sheet of 100G sand paper on a flat surface and run the rough cut edges until I have a nice straight edge on the G-10.

Mouser sells turrets, eyelets and staking tools as mentioned.

Chuck

[Bruce / Mission Amps]

I thought I was going ghetto when I bought my G-10 because I chose 1/16" even though I read a lot of threads/posts where home brewers were using 1/8". I'm sure glad I did though. Working with 1/16" is loads easier and I can't imagine there will ever be a durability issue

Chuck

Agreed 100% Chuck. I've been using 1/16" G10 for something like 17 years now and NEVER found it to be a durability issue... the only time I even thought about using anything thicker then 1/16" is when a customer tried to talk me into building him four AC50 clones using 1/8" G10 and Turrets, 'cause that was the buzz on the Net.
I didn't do it and he ended up only buying one little MOJO, 18 watt Marshall EL84 type clone amp kit from me anyhow.... so screw him ha ha...
I have sold well over 1,300 tube amps and kits, all with my own hand made 1/16" thick G10 boards (well I have local laser shop cut them for me) but I have never had a single bad one, warped one, a complaint or question about the boards.