[sdiy] Plexiglass panels

[jared]

On 7/5/05, Ken Stone <sasami at hotkey.net.au> wrote:
> 
> 
> >By the way, has anyone tried using standard PCB etching techniques to put
> >legends/labeling on face panels? Does this work with aluminum? You 
> wouldn't
> >need (or want) to etch all the way through, just a little bit would work. 
> 
> 
> Aluminium and ferric chloride = violent reaction. It takes a little while
> for the etchant to work through the oxide layer then, zammo, a puff of
> obnoxious fumes, and its too late!
> 
> Ken
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> 
What if you made the faceplates out of copper!? Eh? or better yet, 
faceplates from singlesided pcb blanks! 
:D
p.s. i hate how the reply button sends it to the poster, not the board. :/ 
nothing i can do about it

-- 

jared foster
"...Free to roam the heavens in man's noble quest to investigate the 
weirdness of the universe!" 
m the heavens in man's noble quest to investigate the weirdness of the 
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