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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: J0K3RX on February 28, 2015, 12:21:34 PM

Title: Scrap PCB/copper clad trimmings... what do you do with it?
Post by: J0K3RX on February 28, 2015, 12:21:34 PM
For some weird reason my OCD won't allow me to throw away the little pieces of PCB that are left over when making/etching boards... So.. now after some years I have accumulated a large amount of useless scrap copper clad, probably over 50 lbs of the sh!t :icon_eek: I need to either find a good use for it or the scrapper guy that comes by and asks for scrap metal is gonna get a big donation soon. 

Now, I was able to make quite a few terminal strips very similar to these using scrap but I think I have enough now...
(http://hoffmanamps.com/MyStore/catalog/images/IMG_2369_small.jpg)

I am hoping that some of the creative resourceful minded may have found some other uses for this junk and might be willing to share?
Title: Re: Scrap PCB/copper clad trimmings... what do you do with it?
Post by: mremic01 on February 28, 2015, 03:45:59 PM
That's pretty resourceful. I just use my trimming to mix JB Weld before I throw them out. I have a few cut to different heights for drawing lines on the sides of enclosures where jacks will go, but most of them are just scrap.
Title: Re: Scrap PCB/copper clad trimmings... what do you do with it?
Post by: deafbutpicky on February 28, 2015, 03:46:49 PM
I'm with you... and we both know time will tell when they get useful again ;)
I've got some definite spare room for those cases and if it's full the rest bites the dust.
Sorry for not being helpful but at least I'm not alone with this  ::)

Good idea btw.
Title: Re: Scrap PCB/copper clad trimmings... what do you do with it?
Post by: Tony Forestiere on February 28, 2015, 03:55:58 PM
...little pieces of PCB that are left over... You have scraps?  ;)
Title: Re: Scrap PCB/copper clad trimmings... what do you do with it?
Post by: J0K3RX on February 28, 2015, 04:11:40 PM
I guess I could try to make my wife a couple sets of abstract shaped ear rings... lmao.. She deserves the best!  :icon_wink:
Title: Re: Scrap PCB/copper clad trimmings... what do you do with it?
Post by: tubegeek on March 01, 2015, 11:38:46 AM
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=104029.msg1007675#msg1007675
Quote from: tubegeek on February 08, 2015, 10:39:17 PM
Built a second one Manhattan-style, a little more compact, a little neater:
(http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv166/tubegeek-original/asdfmanhattan2.jpg)
Title: Re: Scrap PCB/copper clad trimmings... what do you do with it?
Post by: peterg on March 01, 2015, 11:58:39 AM
Quote from: J0K3RX on February 28, 2015, 04:11:40 PM
I guess I could try to make my wife a couple sets of abstract shaped ear rings... lmao.. She deserves the best!  :icon_wink:

Aw. So thoughtful!
Title: Re: Scrap PCB/copper clad trimmings... what do you do with it?
Post by: duck_arse on February 01, 2017, 08:54:25 AM
old thread, yes. for those of an Australian persuasion, there is this, from (the totally unaffiliated) Jaycar:

https://www.jaycar.com.au/ultimate-breadboard-disc-pack-20-x-3mm-10-x-5mm/p/HP9564
https://www.jaycar.com.au/ultimate-breadboard-disc-pack-40-x-3mm-20-x-5mm/p/HP9565

they even have a dill DIL adaptor. seems one thing to do with board scrap is to sell it.

[edit :] it's me that's the dill.
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