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Questions relating to designing PCBs
By lyndon
#179072
Unless you're doing something very expensive or extremely critical (unlikely since it's your first board), just try it yourself. If you can afford an assembly service, you can afford to buy a toaster oven, a thermometer and some solder paste and a stencil from OSH stencils. All that will cost you less than just their setup fees.

It's easier than you think.