I've seen a few stripboards laying around that have no copper tracks. After looking online I can see that you can indeed buy these but I can't seem to find why or how to use them.
How can you use it if there's no tracks to solder too?
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asked Jan 30, 2014 at 16:54
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It's often called perfboard (perforated board).
You poke the leads of through-hole components through the holes, bend them to provide mechanical security then solder those leads to each other or to wires.
Example from here
Embroidery for engineers.
answered Jan 30, 2014 at 17:01
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\$\begingroup\$ Aha. So really all the components are hanging from the board being held in due to all the bent leads being soldered to each other \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jan 30, 2014 at 17:13
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6\$\begingroup\$ The truth is that sometimes the factory have a surplus of holes, so they make a load of these boards to use up the holes. Other days they have too much copper but run out of holes, and that's where the plain copper-clad with no holes/strips comes from. \$\endgroup\$– John UCommented Jan 30, 2014 at 20:20