I'm new to H_PCBs, but I've been a tinkerer with electronics since the 60s. I've worked for a few companies which had very good luck with negative resist techniques, but I only had luck with one. It was in the late 70s, early 80s, I believe. The name of the company supplying the resist was Coval Industries out of Champaign, Ill. You painted it on, developed with water, could use incandescent or sunlight for exposure, and was not terribly fussy. The chemical was a rather thick green "paint". I had one bottle of this stuff, and could pretty much etch to my hearts content, using the Chart-Pack (sp?) technique of stick on strips and pads on a drafting vellum. It (the resist) was very forgiving. The trouble was, I didn't have a good exposure box, and my layouts would fall apart during exposure. Also, being a negative process, you had to use the etchant and resist twice to get one pc board. So I wound up using the first bottle learning good technique. When I ordered a second bottle of this wonder chemical, it didn't work. I called the company, and got the president of the company on the same day the phone was to be pulled and company closed. Seems the process quit working, and no one knew why. I tried to buy the process, but he wasn't interested. Does anyone have any idea what this chemical might be, and how to produce it?
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Resist technique lost
2007-07-06 by Jim Reed
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