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Dry Film Laminiate Suppliers

2008-01-17 by Andrew

Markus, Where do you get your dry film laminate. There is only one PCB shop in my city and they are not interested in supplying me any consumables.

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Re:THRU HOLE PLATEING

2008-01-17 by javaguy11111

That is the method I have used. I put a few layers of scotch tape on the corners to develop the gap. Works quite nicely when I have a via that has to go under

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Re: THRU HOLE PLATEING

2008-01-17 by peripherin

I am sure thier are a lot of people who would be very interested in exactly how you are getting success with this process.Please tell the group when the web

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Re: THRU HOLE PLATEING

2008-01-17 by James Newton

Wow... Are you willing to tell us the exact chemicals and times for those baths? How do you keep the holes from being eched off along with the unwanted copper

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Re:THRU HOLE PLATEING

2008-01-17 by James Newton

http://techref.massmind.org/techref/pcbholes.htm has a good over view of options for holes and layers in homemade PCBs. -- James. Posted by: peripherin

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Laminator temperature control

2008-01-16 by josemj1

There seems to be a lively discussion about the use of laminators, so I think I should chime-in. I bought a cheap 9 pocket laminator from a Wal-Mart, then

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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Epson R285

2008-01-16 by Michel Baguet

Thank you, I already use HP inkjet photopaper which works without soaking in water, just peel it off. But for double sided PCB, it s difficult to align both

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Re: THRU HOLE PLATEING

2008-01-16 by peripherin

Okay did some experiments with The Toner senstive foil. My general impression is that the toner needs to be really clean and that you need a lot of heat and

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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Epson R285

2008-01-16 by Derward

Mike, this is overhead projector transparency for laser printers so it will take the iron heat. I iron on like any paper and let cool. Once it is cool I peal

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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] THRU HOLE PLATEING

2008-01-16 by Markus Zingg

Ok, the picture did not made it through. I created an album and uploaded it to the photo section, but the group moderator first must aprove the picture.... So

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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] THRU HOLE PLATEING

2008-01-16 by Markus Zingg

I m right now through plating a board, and quickly took a picture for you. The board is now in the last step, the copper plating bath. The station you see on

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THRU HOLE PLATEING

2008-01-16 by peripherin

Now I am going to ask a question that I have tryed at before and failed. Does anybody know how to thru hole plate useing home equipment ? Also any good

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Re: TONER

2008-01-16 by peripherin

TRF film is like the press and peel system that you can buy for manufacturing PCB s. Pulsar in the states sell rolls of it. What it actually does is when iron

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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: TONER

2008-01-16 by Helge Kyndbo

Hi, I would like to understand what is toner sensitive film . please show some light on this. thanks Helge ... [Non-text portions of this message have been

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Re: TONER

2008-01-16 by peripherin

Well The good news is it works and it works really really well The toner is rock hard and fused to the board I have found that slowing the motro to helps as

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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: TONER

2008-01-15 by Stefan Trethan

It is easy to figure out, pull the fuser unit, attach some slow drive motor of your choice, attach a thermostat, preferrably electronic not electromechanic,

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Re: TONER

2008-01-15 by peripherin

I have ordered a selection of thermostats from Radio Spares. I did not know which temperature would work best with the HP toner but guessing points me to

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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] TONER

2008-01-15 by Stefan Trethan

I know i wrote this a couple of times already, but if you have some electrical and mechanical skill (which you have, otherwise you wouldn t be here in the

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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] TONER

2008-01-15 by Derryck Croker

... Use the laminator to tack your master to the PCB, may be best to pass it through corner first; do it a couple of times from opposite corners. Use your iron

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TONER

2008-01-14 by peripherin

Okay an interesting point but what temperature doe the HP toner melt at looking on the web it seems that people say anywere between 100deg C and 220 Deg C ?

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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Epson R285

2008-01-14 by Stefan Trethan

Oh well, another great example of the crap i was taught at school and never considered properly ;-) So, just to get this straight, The process actually goes

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RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Epson R285

2008-01-14 by James Smith

Does anybody know what temperature toner transitions from solid to liquid ? To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.comFrom: novost@gmail.comDate: Mon, 14 Jan 2008

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Re: Epson R285

2008-01-14 by Len Warner

... This is because it is made of fibres of cellulose, a long-chain carbohydrate molecule, which absorb the water and swell up in all directions - but only the

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Re: Homebrew UV LED based exposure unit

2008-01-14 by Markus Zingg

[snip] ... Unfortunately I in fact don t understand the language :) but - nice work! ... Hmmm, be VERY carefull. I just was reading a post from a guy in a

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Re: Homebrew UV LED based exposure unit

2008-01-13 by javaguy11111

When someone publishes something I think is really cool, I do not hesitate to ask for details. If you want to blunder around reinventing the wheel, then be my

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Question for vers5d

2008-01-13 by javaguy11111

I was just noticing in the photos section a folder called laser etching tests which appears to be pictures of using a laser engraver to remove resist on a pcb.

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Re: Homebrew UV LED based exposure unit

2008-01-13 by javaguy11111

Very nice. A few questions 1. What are you using for the mask 2. Can you upload the datasheet for the LED s you are using. 3. Can you post parts lists and

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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Epson R285

2008-01-13 by Lez

... I found I could not get the staples paper from staples, I suggest you try the asda paper I posted earlier, sounds like the paper you are getting from

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Re: Epson R285

2008-01-13 by peripherin

I think I have established what the problem may be the staples paper I have form a UK branch has a very waxy finish on the rear non printable side almost like

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Re: Epson R285

2008-01-13 by peripherin

... shiny ... more thumb ... remove ... when it ... I try hot ... blame, very ... leaving ... along time ... cheaper ... Yes I use warm water to remove the

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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Epson R285

2008-01-13 by Stefan Trethan

I have the same results. Thermal contraction tries to rip the edges away. My solution is to print a wide black strip all around the PCB, you don t care if all

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