gunrunnerjohn posted:That is doing it the hard way Stan!
Tell me about it! That's exactly why your find is, as you say, almost too good to be true!
I don't know if still done today, but then there were the fab houses that would examine your Gerbers for evidence of multiple designs and nix them to get the teaser pricing.
Anyway, it would be interesting if a library of Gerber-drill files of a dozen or so designs could get posted here so anyone could pony up $5 to get a handful of bare boards. While most guys seem to want assembled/tested boards, it seems DigiKey comes up often enough that some guys have the time/ability to muck around at the component level.
