Homebrew PCBs

Hi Denny,

I put both papers up to a strong light and align them both. They are held
together by means of paper clips (strong spring type ones). The papers are
previously cutted 'front' and 'back', after printing, to the same size of
the image, the sides are not cutted because they will be used for the paper
clips. The image will be in the center of this 'strip'. Then the board is
inserted between the two 'strips' and held in place with 2 or more pieces of
heat resistant tape. Remove the paper clips and send the 'sandwich' trough
the laminator. An extra step that can help keeping the board in place is to
cut the edges of the paper that wore used for the paper clips and use some
more tape.

The trick here is to perfectly cut and align the 'front' of the images with
the board and tape them together. Depending on your type of laminator you
may or may not need to use tape on the other sides.

Nuno T.

-----Original Message-----
From: dkesterline [mailto:desterline@...]
Sent: s\ufffdbado, 17 de Janeiro de 2004 5:23
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Laminating and alignment


Looking for other peoples experiance with aligning double sided TT
through a laminator.

I just tried to laminate my first DS board. I stuck down one side,
removed the paper so I could drill a couple alignment holes and tried
laminating the other side. Totaly destroyed the toner on the first
side.

So what do other people do?

-Denny

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