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From: "Bob Blick" <bob@TED.NET>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [EE]: Homemade PCB fabrication


> > I'd like to know how you guys do your PCB at home ?
> > Tell me how
>
> The cheapest ways require you to be really good or you get bad results.
>
> > 1- How do you reproduce the schematic on your PCB ? (transfert sheet
> > like Dynaarts -I don't like them...- etc...)
> I use "Press'n'Peel Blue" from http://www.techniks.com and you must use a
> good laser printer, not a copier.

Have you tried Dyna-art ? this dyna-art thing didn't work to much for me...

> > 2- you etch do you use ferric chloride, etc... (did you make a
> > container with buble, heat etc... if so could you describe it ? how do
> > you place the PCB ? face down with bubble coming right from the
> > bottom, PCB un the side with bubble from the bottom, etc...)
>
> If you place it copper up in the fecl and slosh it for what seems like
> forever that works. Preheating the fecl in a microwave makes it etch
> faster but I don't like the taste.
>
> 3- For 2 layers, how do you connect the 2 layers ?
>
> Unless you're really a masochist forget 2 layers.
>
> 4- Do any of you put that sort of green mask or whatever you call it ? If
> so, how do you do and what exactly is it ?
>
> Solder mask? No, these are home made, remember.
>
> 5- Do you cover your tracks with anything or you just leave them with the
> coper ?
>
> Plain.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bob
>
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