I need some high quality Printed Circuit Boards Made (DYNACO ST-70)

Dogearedaudio:    I seems that Audiogon blocked about everything you sent.....Audiogon wants to stick there nose in everything.......Its like we are going take something worth 5 cents....................Will

I work for a company that produces cellular antennas for companies like Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, etc. We us a PCB manufacturer called ACI for quality PCBs. Our RF engineers use programs like HFSS to create them, however, while we can produce Gerber files, we generally send ACI DXF files with "layers" specified on them.

Now, we use copper traces, not silver, and I don’t know if ACI - or another PCB manufacturer provides silver traces - maybe. You’d have to ask. But we use the DXFs to create 3D models in Solidworks. And ACI is happy to use these DXFs as well.

Maybe you could get a low cost DXF CAD program and create your own files that can be used. Of course you’d need to know PCB material thickness, the hole diameters, and the thickness and widths of the traces, which you could carefully measure with digital calipers. And know which holes (if any) are plated through holes. I assume this material is good old FR4 most likely, probably 60mil thick.

Good luck. But yes, $2000 seems excessive, then again, for a "one off" I guess that is the going rate.

Thanks, moonwatcher.  I had a nice chat with Will and he sent me pix of his old board, which is very clearly labelled.  It's pretty much a duplicate of the original board with some spacing changes for the components he uses.  I'm going to send everything to this fellow in the Netherlands and see if he can create a board with an identical layout.  He's posted a bunch of free PCBs for various tube projects over at Diyaudio.  He goes by "v4lve lover" and he has some great stuff there for DIYers.  He made an excellent custom board for me, and I also use two of his other designs for various power supply elements, etc.  We'll see what he can do!

Well to the many people who brought forward great idea's, I can't thank you enough......The problems that I have really can't be fixed, most are my problems with the modern day of doing things .........People don't look at challenges as anything but casual occurrences and no real importance........I came up in a different time, where if you didn't "push" you got nowhere........I'm out of "push" and out of energy........Thanks for your help and energy, someone else will have to run with it         Will  

Will,

Isn't it worth seeing what dogearedaudio's friend might be able to do for you before you throw in the towel? You're a valued member of the audio community, and I think that there a lot of others out there like myself who would feel bad if you left prematurely.