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With my Othermill arriving imminently, I’d love to hear more about your experience milling Pyralux, even if its still very preliminary. I’m very excited to simply have the mill for regular old PCBs and other prototyping work, but I have a few projects in mind where milling flex pcb material could be really handy, and difficult to do otherwise. Would be great to hear what’s worked and what hasn’t work, mill settings, etc.
With my Othermill arriving imminently, I’d love to hear more about your experience milling Pyralux, even if its still very preliminary. I’m very excited to simply have the mill for regular old PCBs and other prototyping work, but I have a few projects in mind where milling flex pcb material could be really handy, and difficult to do otherwise. Would be great to hear what’s worked and what hasn’t work, mill settings, etc.