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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Before Ironing the Printed Schematic - what do you?

2010-10-19 by Jean-Marc Spaggiari

>  For Lexmark (I have also one ) the temperature is 170°C

Good to know. ;) Thanks!

> I have tweaked my GBC to increase the temp see here for the whole story
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBs/photos/album/2010322437/pic/list
Yep, that's why I bought this model ;) Because I read all your posts
and looked at all your videos ;)

> As your first name seems to be french, and as I am also french, I have
> posted explainations on a french forum too :
> http://www.usinages.com/impresson-pcb-avec-une-plastifieuse-gbc-t22763.html

Thanks for this link! I read all this thread too! Very useful!

> Don't need to play with the motor, just the temperature which is really
> easy to achieve :-)

My main concern is that I don't think I will be able to re-build the
end supports like here:
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8229/gbclaminator5.jpg so that's
why I was thinking about slowing down the motor instead of rising the
temperature :( You are providing Solidworks and Gcode files for that,
but what can I do with them?

I spent the last week trying with the iron method, and never got very
good results. Only 20 mils was 100% good. 15 and 10 was bad.

Also, have you tried yourself do to double-faced board? I would like
to try with the last method you described (print the 2 sides of the
board on a single sheet, then fold it over the bord...)

Thanks,

JM

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