I don't do this often, so I look for the easy way out.
   Wear good rubber gloves for personal safety.
  1- Find cardboard box of appropriate size
  2- Line box with plastic food wrap from kitchen, single sheet, no seams.
       Pay attention to the corner that you plan to use to pour the used
solution for recovery.
       Use masking tape to assure that the plastic stays in place.
  3- Throw away the box when done.

Do all work in a large plastic tray to limit any spill damage.

If the zip lock bags advertised on TV really work as well as advertised, I
will eventually get around to trying to etch in one.

Putting down resist need not be as difficult as the commercial folks lead us
to believe.
 I have successfully used nail polish, masking tape, Scotch tape, shelf
paper, model airplane paint, labels, permanent markers.
 Drilling holes before etching makes applying resist easier. I have not
found an easy way to apply resist to make DIP patterns.
 Fortunately, sockets are cheap. I find that a combination of techniques
works better for me rather than single solution.
 'Dead bug' and 'Manhattan construction are still my mainstays for prototype
construction. I cannot recall the last time I
 bothered to repackage a project. Ugly is not necessarily bad!

John Ferrell
6241 Phillippi Rd
Julian NC 27283
Phone: (336)685-9606
Dixie Competition Products
NSRCA 479 AMA 4190  W8CCW
"My Competition is Not My Enemy"

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