[sdiy] Microwave Ferric Chloride

[Pete Niedermayr]

Check out some microwave "cookware" maybe on Ebay or something. I know they
have things that you could heat up in a microwave and set your tub of ferric
chloride on and heat it up that way. Also, how much do you need to heat it
up. If you consider "room temperature could be between 65-85 F" you could
heat up or boil some water in a microwave and put your bottle of ferric
chloride  in that to heat it up and then put it in your etching tub. Or use
hot tap water to do the same. My experience with etching PCB's with ferric
chloride  (A long time ago and far away) was that heat only sped up the
process and had little  effect on the quality of result and a little
giggling of the tub helps a lot. DON'T put your ferric chloride  in a
microwave !
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Patchell" <patchell at cox.net>
To: "Steve Allen" <snd_audio at yahoo.com>; <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Microwave Ferric Chloride


> Heck, give it a try....but NOT in a microwave you cook your food in :-)
>
> At 11:33 PM 1/11/2004 -0800, Steve Allen wrote:
> >Hello All,
> >  I've noticed that when etching pc boards with ferric chloride that it
> > helps to heat it up to about 120F or so and was wondering if anyone has
> > preheated this stuff in a microwave?
> >I know that there is a good amount of iron in this stuff, and wondering
if
> >that may be a problem for the mw oven?
> >
> >  Thanks in advance.
> >
> >   Steve
> >
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