[sdiy] Press-and-peel question

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Sunday 05 October 2008 15:56, David G. Dixon wrote:
> Thanks, fellow SDIYers, for all the excellent advice!  Fine-tipped Sharpie
> it is!  Indeed, only about a half-dozen traces (out of several hundred)
> were compromised, so if it doesn't work, the fine, tinned copper wire
> solution should work well.
>
> I'm actually pleasantly surprised at how well the transfer paper did work.
> I think that the problem of incomplete transfer has to do with the stiff
> face of a household iron.  A more pliant ironing surface would be better --
> something like a sheet of industrial heating tape on a makeshift platen of
> some kind.  I guess I'll have to experiment a bit.  I guess that's one of
> the perks of having a university research lab at ones disposal!  I might
> even get a grad student to try it for me!

You guys that are just getting into that stuff might check out this yahoo 
group:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBs/

There's been lots of discussion in there about what works and why,  etc.  One 
of the things I recall from my reading in there (not recently :-) was that a 
whole lot of better alternatives to irons are out there,  like the fuser from 
an otherwise defunct laser printer for one example.

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