Homebrew PCBs

YES... Mark Lerman is the pointman here.
BUT
AMAZON will sell you a LEXMARK E260D for $450
which is not the kind of money I spend on something I am going to chop 
apart for a hobby hack.

I'm futzing with toner transfer for hobby electronics.... ham 
radio....and.. this kitchen etching  is new to me.
So when I found that I could use my laminator instead of a clothes iron 
I went down that path
and melted the gear .....
which then had me looking into how to get around this plastic gear problem.

I did by taking the motor and laminator temperature hack OUT of the 
equation all together
by using heavy metal that I already had here:
http://www.learnmorsecode.com/laminator/hotcakes.html

The TONER REACTIVE FOIL futzing is just some more education about the 
available methods to get great
results WITHOUT buying any specialty products.

I'm just totally sick of getting mugged by technology.
I walked into Walmart with my grandchildren to buy a laser printer FOR 
THEM  and found nothing less than $100 while at the same time knowing I 
bought my PANTUM online..delivered in two days from NJ...for $34. The 
idea was to have the kids draw the artwork and then use that artwork to 
make pad printing
plates.... lithography craftwork.


So when
   http://www.pcbfx.com/main_site/pages/products/toner_foils.html
wants to sell 15 feet of GREEN TRF for $9
I have to ask the question "WHAT IS green TRF made of ?"
and more importantly... how the hell does TRF do this magical melt under 
heat but only stick to toner?

So stumbling around the craft TRF users and their videos I sort of 
figured this could be the same stuff....
and readily available for less money from craft sources.

And the TRF is good for all sorts of craftiness... on the top of the PCB 
too.



Aug 13, 2014 - Mark Lerman has pioneered this method with his conversion 
of a ... of his conversion of a Lexmark E260 for direct laser printing 
to PCB stock.

On 12/27/2016 01:56 AM, 'Tony Smith' ajsmith1968@... 
[Homebrew_PCBs] wrote:
>
> Mark Lerman did the DLP, I figure if you're going to futz about 
> rebuilding a laminator with custom gearing and then futz about even 
> more adding foil and then futz about touching up the pinholes in that, 
> you might as well hack a $50 printer in the first place.
>
> You can't use a fuser from a laser printer because the rollers aren't 
> far enough apart to allow for a PCB, and can't easily be adjusted.
>
> However if you're set on modifying a laminator, modifying a fuser 
> would be less work - the parts are already rated to handle the heat.
>
> Note that Lerman's DLP method doesn't use the fuser anyway, the toner 
> on the copper board needs to be fused after printing. Someone figured 
> out suspending it above some acetone will cause the acetone vapours to 
> fuse the toner after a few minutes, at which point you're ready to etch.
>
> Tony
>