Jinx wrote:
>> Dual-layer PCBs are overrated, anyway -- unless you can get the
>> second layer free. :)
>
> The last two times I got stock, one was from a Dick Smith sell-out
> (ah, words that go together) and they were throwing out dirt cheap
> what they had left, A5 double-sided. Presumably nobody wanted it
> as much as single-sided. The other was from the scraps bin, very
> useable scraps actually, of a board house. I was told the only single-
> sided they use is phenolic, and not all that often. Otherwise all their
> stock is GRP double-sided. So all my home-made second layers will
> be free for the foreseeable future. Not that I don't use single-sided
> when possible, it's wasteful to etch a whole unused layer off

I meant if you get the board from a board house. I think doing dual layer 
PCBs by hand is too much hassle, better to have a few jumper wires. IMO, it 
only makes sense when you have to have parts on both sides.

Vitaliy 

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