Homebrew PCBs

Well, I tried the cold transfer method and… yeah.. no dice at all.  Probably my mixture wasn’t working right.

 

Anyway, for sport, I went back to the process I had tried before.  My PCB patterns are bigger than what’s out there on youtube, and I had been printing them on separate pieces of paper.  This time, I printed them together on one piece of magazine paper from Hotrod Magazine (love that magazine).  Then I cleaned the board, let the iron get hotter than the blue blazes of h—ll.. and then went for it.  Spent a good 10 minutes really working the iron – first back and forth nice and slow like a laminator, then faster, on the theory it would keep the paper hot all the way around.  I looked really closely and could kind of see where the toner was coming off the paper a little bit, and really worked the front end of the iron down on spots I thought were suspect.  Then I dunked the whole thing in a tub of cold water and let it sit for 2 minutes.  Anyway, voila!  The result:

 

http://s1381.photobucket.com/user/unclefalter/media/20160612_172825_zpstl1dzy7q.jpg.html

 

So that disproves that my compatible toner won’t work.. at least for the ironing process.  Don’t know if we’ll have a problem when we etch?  But yeah.. it looks really good, I think.  I kind of figured the problem was ‘operator error’ here since 80%+ was coming off on my previous tries.  

 

Now that I sort of have a procedure that works I think I’ll keep at it and get my other patterns done.  Lots of Hotrods lying around. :)

 

Brad