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From: jfischer@knife.cs.umn.edu (John D. Fischer)
Subject: Re: Double Sided Boards
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In article <3hv1um$asl@kelly.teleport.com>, carla2@teleport.com (Carla Fong) writes:
|> In <3h67lh$goa@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cgc3@po.cwru.edu (Christopher Cifra) writes:
|> 
|> >Hi,
|> >   I'm working on a project and am thinking about
|> >constructing an etched double sided board, but I can't think of
|> >how traces from one side would be electrically connected to traces
|> >on the other side.  My router connects top side traces to bottom side
|> >traces through IC pin holes, but it would be impossible to solder the
|> >pins to both sides of the board.  So how is this normally done?
|> 
I have boards that don't have the top and bottom pads connected.  What
I do is take some wire-wrap wire, solder it to the top pad, and run the
wire through the hole.  Then when I have done this to all the top pads
I solder the chips to the bottom pad and the wire.

I hope I answered your question.
John 
