[XCSSA] Who is your favorite boardhouse?

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

On Friday 01 August 2008 08:09:56 am X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio 
wrote:
> So I am fairly close to finishing my board layout for my MidiBox
> project (in this case, it is the BankStick module) and was curious as
> to who your favorite boardhouse was?

The only place I've ever really used us Advanced Circuits (aka 4pcb.com):
	http://www.4pcb.com/

They're okay.. I used them to create my 7"x14" "Rapid Reboot" controller that 
I invented for Server Beach back in 2003:
	http://theweeks.org/tmp/SHOW/2_b_demux-pop1-rear_l.jpg

Real nice board.. but their "engineers" didn't catch the fact that thea 
art/layout program that I used to create the gerber files with had undersized 
via holes for all the DIP sockets.. so I had to manually drill out some 2,000 
holes by hand.  Thank goodness for my dremel drill press:
	http://theweeks.org/tmp/SHOW/3_proto_drill4.jpg

Geez what a nightmare.. plus a little "Blue wire"...  I'm surprised that the 
prototype ever worked.. 

BTW.. I don't know all their pricing now.. but they had some great pricing 
back in 2003.. I think in 2003 I got a deal of like $33/board (you can do 
multiple boards per sheet)...

Tweeks