Yeah the nibbler can make a mess of the front panel. I used to stick paper stickers or masking tape on before nibbling a square hole, to protect the finish.
But there are no problems with finish on PCB or stripboard. It usually needs filing of the edge, but that common to guillotines and especially hacksaws too.
Nibblers are cool they are a relic from the 60's and 70's when people made their own electronics enclosures out of sheet metal and bent them into boxes on small sheet metal benders, then filled the box with tubes or round silver transistors... The good old days!
But my nibbler still lives in arms reach next to my screwdrivers and (surprisingly) it gets used quite a bit.
But there are no problems with finish on PCB or stripboard. It usually needs filing of the edge, but that common to guillotines and especially hacksaws too.
Nibblers are cool they are a relic from the 60's and 70's when people made their own electronics enclosures out of sheet metal and bent them into boxes on small sheet metal benders, then filled the box with tubes or round silver transistors... The good old days!
But my nibbler still lives in arms reach next to my screwdrivers and (surprisingly) it gets used quite a bit.