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[Matti]

I'm not sure where exactly one might buy some HFl, but it can be bought
buy the general public in some stores. Not that it's the sort of thing
that you'd want to work with....get too much of it in your body (ie on
your skin), the Fl will bind with the calcium in your heart, kill you.

HCl works just fine for etching glass, I believe. 'Muriatic Acid' at your
lcal hardware store.

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On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, patchell wrote:

>     Etching glass...yikes...The most effective way I have heard of
> etching glass is with HydroFloric acid...But this is not the kind of
> thing you can pick up at the local super market.  I had to use it once.
> Never again.  The stuff is too scary, at least to me.
>
>     The etch resist would be interesting.  I was told, back in the old
> days, parafin was used to create the mask.  But, I think the same photo
> resist that works on PC boards will stand up to HF, so, I suppose you
> could do it just like you would do a PCB.
>
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> Magnus Danielson wrote:
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> >
> > How does one etch glass from a computer original?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Magnus
>
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