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Re: Toner Transfer for Instrument Panels?

2004-07-31 by Dave Mucha

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "ballendo" <ballendo@y...> 
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> try  http://www.pulsar.gs , formerly http://www.dynaart.com/
> 
> It's not readily apparent on their website, but the instructions 
> which come with their dextrin coated paper show how to make decals 
> and panel labels...
> 
> There's another website, with a tag line like  "We can show you how 
> to print on ANYTHING, or your money back!" that also uses toner 
> transfer to make panels. I'll try to find the URL, but maybe 
someone 
> else here knows it in the meantime?
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Ballendo
> 
>

I think with a challeng like that, I'd like to seem them print with 
food dye on water !


As for the panels. you can get aluminum tape that they use for metal 
repair.  it's like duct tape with metal.  then toner transfer on that.

you can get thin sheetmetal and toner transfer on that and then with 
the nuts and bolts of your lights and switeches, hold the face plate 
on.

Or, as Ballendo mentioned, you can mechanically etch either metal, or 
even that two color plastic laminate label stuff.  Like they make 
nametags with.   

I used to have a part that used that material as the front of the 
part.

Dave

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