Homebrew PCBs

Hi there

My experience with PnP wasn't that good. This may be down to technique on my part but never the less I tried adjusting my irons temp to solve one primary problem I had. That was the whole pack used and I never found the happy medium.

This was the PnP shrinking at the edges and therefore smearing and distorting the traces in these areas. The areas that worked worked great but I couldn't get the shrinkage under control. Also as the sheets are less than A4 in size I was losing capacity to do a lot of a particular PCB So cost was an issue for me.

There are more success stories than bad so it obviously works and works well in the 'right hands' :-D

I now use HP everyday photopaper semi-gloss. Far more sheets for your money and it soaks off easily and I have 100% success every time. Plus I can fit more patterns to a sheet. I may need to spend 30 seconds with a resist pen if the odd spec comes adrift but for me it works better than I could ever get PnP to. YMMV.

regards

Fenris 

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "AD5VJ  Bob" <rtnmi@...> wrote:
>
> As you all know I am new to this whole process and therefore have gone to Utube and uncovered many of what seem to be good videos of
> pcb manufacturing.
> 
> One which I just viewed is different in that the guy is talking about using a paper called 'Press and Peel' and his laser printer
> and the rest is the same as normal paper.
> 
> This looks like a whole lot faster way of ironing on the toner to the board since you dont have the intermediate steps involved in
> removing the messy paper, you still have the quenching but then the paper just peels away without all the time consuming 'finger
> rubbing' and tooth brushing steps to remove the paper.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience with this type of paper and if so, was it successful or unsuccessful or cost prohibitive?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bob AD5VJ
>