At 10:09 PM 7/22/01 +0300, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> > Hobby shop item. A "pen" with a brush or wick end and copper salt
> > solution inside. Uses a battery and a ground clip to repair plating.
> > You can get copper and silver etc.
>
>It only works for plating conductive objects.

In PCB shops, they use an electroless copper plate to plate the inside of
the holes.
At this stage, the board is drilled, but not masked in any way. It's just
plain copper on both sides.

They follow this with an electroplate step, but the electroless part is how
they plate the holes.

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