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thin sheet steel
bd139:
--- Quote from: Ian.M on April 06, 2020, 11:14:17 am ---Try looking for Tinplate. Its available down to about 0.1mm and around 0.2mm is readily available. Because the steel is electroplated with tin, it solders like a dream. However you certainly wont be able to get large sheets in small quantities at a good price owing to the difficulty of keeping them flat and un-dinged in shipping.
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Heinz bean tins are quite good for that on one offs. Also free beans :-DD
alanambrose:
You can find thin 'shim stock' in various metals on eBay and then cut out by hand with tin snips. Don't forget to deburr the edges though because it'll be properly sharp.
Another cheap possibility - if stainless has the required EMC characteristics - is to design a foldable can (in Fusion 360 for example) and have it cut for you as a solder paste stencil. I've, for example, created electrode designs that way. Some shops will be a bit reluctant to do an unusual stencil like this - but some are fine with it.
Alan
Simon:
--- Quote from: bd139 on April 06, 2020, 12:14:08 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ian.M on April 06, 2020, 11:14:17 am ---Try looking for Tinplate. Its available down to about 0.1mm and around 0.2mm is readily available. Because the steel is electroplated with tin, it solders like a dream. However you certainly wont be able to get large sheets in small quantities at a good price owing to the difficulty of keeping them flat and un-dinged in shipping.
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Heinz bean tins are quite good for that on one offs. Also free beans :-DD
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Unfortunately despite the free beans we need this to be manufacturable in quantities.
Simon:
I wonder if these people would oblige: https://www.tinplate.co.uk/services/
Alex Eisenhut:
On a PCB?
https://www.tech-etch.com/shield/boardlevelshield.html
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