Homebrew PCBs

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:20:56 +0200, lcdpublishing  
<lcdpublishing@...> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
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> This is the first time i have run across something like this.  I was
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> doing some experimenting with the ink over the weekend for etching.
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> Anyway, I dipped a board in Ferric Chloride for about 10 seconds or
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> so to give it a dull surface.  I rinsed it off, not super good, but
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> rinsed it and left it to dry in my soldering jig.
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> It turned all black.  So, I just took some scotch brite and started
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> to polish it and began coughing right away.  It appears as though
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> the copper oxide (whatever the black stuff is) can be a repiratory
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> irritant of some sort.
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> Generally stuff doesn't bother me - I smoked for for 35 years or so
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> and work around dust all the time in the woodshop.  Very little has
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> ever got me coughing that much that quickly.  So, I just thought I
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> should mention this in case someone else runs into something similar.
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> Chris


hmm strange..

usually when your body tells you something it is clever to listen ;-)

ST