has anyone contacted alpha directly? is there a minimum order etc? I am currently working on a couple of pedal designs and if all goes well I am going to use these pots as well, after being unable to find any decent UK sources i am thinking of going direct to alpha and buy in bulk. Unfortunately I n...

I would see if you can get a demo of illustrator , for a living i work with linux on a vast scale so am all for the opensource apps like inkscape and gimp but having tried both and being slightly frustrated i decided to try illustrator on my mac ,within an hour my design was done and printed!! Lucki...

Thanks i think i will give them a shot , am starting to think it may be cheaper to go further to get the PCB's made at a cheap price , which is a real shame as i would like to do as much as i can sourced from the UK.

Can anyone recommend a good PCB manufacturer in the UK ? as i think the wife would kill me if i started making PCB's at home ...... also spending a weekend drilling PCB's is never fun. Ideally i would like to use Eagle and first send my files across to get 1 PCB made then build and test .... once ha...