gEDA-user: Quick and Easy solder mask creation

[Dave N6NZ]

professional hand-use sqeegees are very thin, very flexible stainless. 
My expensive sqeegee is much less stiff than any of my thin putty 
knives.  ***much*** less stiff than a mason's trowel.

Steven Michalske wrote:
> Run up to your local hardware store,  pick your self up a stiff trowel 
> for tiles, its used to put down the adhesive/thinset
> They are nice and stiff and have a good handle.
> 
> On Apr 2, 2007, at 11:57 AM, John Griessen wrote:
> 
>> Dave N6NZ wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, some of them look a little odd.  But... the title says "Quick 
>>> and Easy"....
>>
>>
>> How should we decide to break a solder paste mask into smaller sections
>> to "help them out"?   Larger than ____?  dimension?   I guess this is for
>> better squeegee results -- not needing a super hard edged squeegee -- 
>> so the squeegee
>> doesn't go too low over a large opening and leave paste mostly in the 
>> edges -- too little paste.
>>
>> Right?
>>
>> John Griessen
>>
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