Homebrew PCBs

Hm. An off topic thread being hijacked to an on topic subject. 

The mind boggles. ;')

Steve Greenfield AE7HD

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Phil@..." <yahoo@...> wrote:
>
> "... with Brother lasers is the toners isn't re-fusable ..."
> 
> Actually I think the problem is as someone else has suggested, i.e. that the 
> required fuser temp is much higher. I have a Brother MFC-8500, probably 
> about 10 years old now, still works fine but not very well for TT. Prints 
> look fine on paper, even for large dark areas, but it's hard to get the 
> toner to stick to a copper clad board and the toner isn't dense enough to 
> completely block out the etch acid. Same problem making transparencies for 
> photo resist masks.
> --
> Phil M.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tony Smith" <ajsmith1968@...>
> To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 6:33 AM
> Subject: RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Discussion of top, bottom, middle posting 
> is OFF TOPIC
> 
> 
> > Ya gotta admit it's pretty funny though.
> >
> > It's occurred to me that there might be a link between behaviour and email
> > signatures.  Most people have given up on them these days anyways, as 
> > indeed
> > had Jeremy.
> >
> > If you look at companies, the bigger they are, the bigger the blah blah
> > legalese they attach to the email, and insecure small companies compensate
> > by beefing theirs up.
> >
> > So do individuals behave the same?  For example many of the machining 
> > groups
> > have gunsmiths in them, and I can't recall one who has a signature block,
> > let alone a "defending mah rights" one.  The ones that do, though...
> >
> > I reckon there might be grant money in researching that.  And I thought of
> > it first, so hands off you mongrels.  Go find your own gravy train.
> >
> > As for the shelving vinyl like you find in the supermarket, it's usually a
> > bit on the thin side.  Sign vinyl is thicker.  Putting it on some heavy
> > paper first might help.
> >
> > The problems people have with Brother lasers is the toners isn't 
> > re-fusable,
> > so once on the paper or vinyl etc it won't re-melt and transfer to the 
> > PCB.
> > I've only used HP stuff so I've no direct experience.  Toner transfer with
> > sign vinyl does work.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> >
>