Homebrew PCBs

Huh? He didn't even mention using a hacked laser printer fuser in that
message.

And I don't see how it would be wrong if he had mentioned it. It ain't
like he's selling them, someone asks where to get a laminator and he
suggests what he's done as a possibility.

Steve Greenfield

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "mycroft2152" <mycroft2152@y...>
wrote:
> Hey Stefan,
> 
> Lighten up a little bit and stop kicking a dead horse, you made your 
> point. Not everyone wants to or has the room for the guts to an old 
> laser printer attached to a chicken barbeque motor on their 
> workbench.
...snip...
> Let's keep this a open discussion of the many ways to improve 
> homebrew pcb's rather than forcing one method on us all.
> 
> Myc
> 
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Stefan Trethan" 
> <stefan_trethan@g...> wrote:
...
> > 
> > luckily, if you coat the pages with high-temp silicone yourself it 
> is  
> > everything but non-stick, you can't slide a page coated in that 
> way  
> > against a smooth surface. (Kind of like the rubber mats for old 
> people to  
> > put in the bathtub so they don't slip).
> > 
> > 
> > But, my method of choice uses a sheet of heavy paper (thin 
> cardboard) that  
> > is folded in the center.
> > 
> > Your printouts must have a 3cm+ excess paper on one edge (same 
> edge).
> > 
> > Align your printouts against a light source, no pcb inserted or 
> anyting.  
> > hold together with right hand on the center of the printouts.
> > Now open the folded cardboard with left hand, and put the 
> printouts in it  
> > with the excess paper in the fold. hold the things together, from 
> the  
> > outside of the cardboard, over the excess paper. now open the 
> printouts up  
> > and slide PCB in (take care to get the component legend on the non-
> copper  
> > side if you do one side copper and one side legend, don't ask...). 
> now  
> > hold together over the PCB (from outide the cardboard) and feed 
> into fuser  
> > with folded edge first.
> > 
> > I usually give it a second run without the cardboard, for the 
> added  
> > thickness makes the heating take longer (I turn the thing over for 
> the  
> > second run).
> > 
> > It works well.
> > 
> > What i wonder sometimes is if it would be easier to sand one edge 
> of the  
> > board to a centered sharp edge and simply fold the paper over..
> > 
> > ST