I've been searching for a board like the one in this video:
by Robotics Mate. Any idea where I can get one or a name for it I can use in a search. A search on 'mounting board' doesn't work
Attached is a screen capture. I'm referring to the orange plastic board with the evenly spaced holes.
looks like pegboard,but thats normally wood or metal
You could try asking the guy himself... he seems to be responsive to questions asked in the comments:
You could try asking the guy himself... he seems to be responsive to questions asked in the comments:
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When I first looked there were no comments. Now I see them and have asked.
Back in the day before project boxes I used hardboard that I lacquered with poly. They used to make this really dense dark board, easy to drill and looked great when the pcb was mounted. Similar to this stuff.
Prior to that I built bare circuits on pine offcuts using paper templates.
Shock,
Clipboards used to be made with a hard material like this.
I made speaker adaptors and templates out of them but never found
full sheets as hard as the clipboards were.
Maybe they did what you did to it?
Jeff
Yeah perhaps it was already finished with something, some hardboard used to have a smooth satin like finish on one side now that I think about it.
Fake wood flooring and paneling is probably similar. You can also get used natural wood flooring dirt cheap, bit of a sanding and stain and ideal for project boxes or breadboard/crystal radio/key set bases or soldering tip or tool holders etc.
Back in the day before project boxes I used hardboard that I lacquered with poly. They used to make this really dense dark board, easy to drill and looked great when the pcb was mounted. [snip]
I use that stuff as a work surface because it's so hard. As a result, it's difficult to drill holes in it.
Probably different grades, some of the synthetic boards are almost ceramic like due to the resins or whatever they use to bind it. I remember the stuff I got locally was quite soft for drilling but once lacquered was like walnut. I assume the more lacquer it absorbs the harder it gets.
Looks like old style turret tag board to me. Used to come in quite big phenolic sheets, but the only ones I can find now are relatively narrow (~80mm max approx) and ridiculous prices.
I just heard from the producer of the linked video. He said the board was custom made by him as a teaching aid.
well i usually find in most of the mil/lab test equipment that i dismantle. also i found it in some mil PCs. the screws i save in a bottle. but the boards I usually throw them away. I would say old ones have a distinctive smell. and for devices older as 2000 i found normaly to be some kind of resin / 3d printed.
let me see if i have some pictures of some of them.
