Homebrew PCBs

Hi Dave,

Yeah, my kids are grown up!  In fact, the oldest is in grad school, and
borrowed my "eraser", and my PIC programmer!  I got my lamp in '77, so I
think it's paid for it's self!

Your box sounds good.  I'll get around to it!

Alan  KM6VV


Dave King wrote:
> 
> >And for others reading, just operate the lamp in a box, or in a spare
> >bathroom/photolab (I hang a warning sign on the door!).  As has been
> >noted, it's dangerous to expose your eyes to the light, and no doubt
> >will also cause severe sunburns.
> >
> >Alan  KM6VV
> 
> Gotta chirp in the middle here ;-]
> 
> I purchased a metal tool box, a germ light, and a electric timer a few years
> back. I wired the whole thing up inside so that when close the lamp
> is located just above the removable tray which has some contact foam
> glued in place. I put the parts to be exposed/erased on the foam, close the lid
> (which still has the padlock hasp on it if needed), plug it into the socket,
> give the timer a twist and wait till it goes ding.
> 
> The lid seals well enough that no light escapes but a strip of door seal would
> fix a toolbox with a poor fit. Other than the timer knob and the cord
> everything
> fits inside the box and is protected. When done with it will easily stuff
> into a
> closet. If you are doing stuff at home and have prying little fingers about
> aka
> mutant rugrats aka kids you can put a lock on the hasp walk away from it
> and not worry about them getting hurt or exposed.
> 
> I can't rem what the timer was from but it went to 45 or 60 minutes. Anyway
> this
> has worked quite well for big and small batches for 11 years (getting old)
> 
> Dave