Durable circuits on perfboard

Ok, I have a love-hate relationship with perfboard. It's easy to prototype on it, but wiring your circuit can be a very tedious job.

And because of the exposed wiring your circuit board can be a bit fragile (or this might be due to my lousy soldering, of course.)

A handy way to make your circuit a bit more durable, and lots more presentable too, you can use cheap commonly available two-component epoxy glue to encase the solder side of your circuit boards. The downside is that you can't make any modifications afterwards, but for some of my projects this is not really a problem.

My procedure is as follows:

Build your project on epoxy perfbord>
Test the circuit!
Create a form to pour the epoxy cement around the edges of the board. I had good results with Scotch tape.
Mix the epoxy cement and pour it over the board, you can do this in multiple layers if you want
Let the epoxy cement harden and remove the tape, with Scotch tape this is very easy, no residue is left.

When the cement is hardened thoroughly (in about two days), you can sand it down to get a smooth finish.

Below you can find an example of a circuit done this way, a console adapter for a ADM5120 based router board that I use in various other projects: console toothbrush perfboard project