Paxolin!
I was just whining about that Paxolin tagboard taking too long to show up and it was in the mail today. Now this is the stuff. Paxolin was a trade name for Bakelite that was common to a lot of European vendors back in the day.
So this is essentially just brown Bakelite with "tin" (actually an alloy, but commonly referred to as tin) terminals riveted to it. But it's very nice in that it gives you three good places to connect a wire or component at each location. Those holes in the center also give you a place to bring wires up from under the board.
This is technically an FR2 board. Modern boards are usually FR4. The difference is sometimes notable at high voltage, but at 9 volts I'm pretty sure there's no increased hazard worth noting. And they're just so amazingly cool.
Paxolin!
I was just whining about that Paxolin tagboard taking too long to show up and it was in the mail today. Now this is the stuff. Paxolin was a trade name for Bakelite that was common to a lot of European vendors back in the day.
So this is essentially just brown Bakelite with "tin" (actually an alloy, but commonly referred to as tin) terminals riveted to it. But it's very nice in that it gives you three good places to connect a wire or component at each location. Those holes in the center also give you a place to bring wires up from under the board.
This is technically an FR2 board. Modern boards are usually FR4. The difference is sometimes notable at high voltage, but at 9 volts I'm pretty sure there's no increased hazard worth noting. And they're just so amazingly cool.