<br><div>On 7/5/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ken Stone</b> <<a href="mailto:sasami@hotkey.net.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sasami@hotkey.net.au</a>> wrote:<span class="e" id="q_104e96bc162054a5_0">
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<br>>By the way, has anyone tried using standard PCB etching techniques to put<br>>legends/labeling on face panels? Does this work with aluminum? You wouldn't<br>>need (or want) to etch all the way through, just a little bit would work.
<br><br>Aluminium and ferric chloride = violent reaction. It takes a little while<br>for the etchant to work through the oxide layer then, zammo, a puff of<br>obnoxious fumes, and its too late!<br><br>Ken<br>_______________________________________________________________________
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</a>><br><br></blockquote></div><br></span></div>What if you made the faceplates out of copper!? Eh? or better yet, faceplates from singlesided pcb blanks!
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p.s. i hate how the reply button sends it to the poster, not the board. :/ nothing i can do about it<br><br>-- <br><br>jared foster<br>"...Free to roam the heavens in man's noble quest to investigate the weirdness of the universe!"
</span></div>m the heavens in man's noble quest to investigate the weirdness of the universe!"