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Subject: Re: Solder Mask Home Brew

From: "Mike Phillips" <mikep_95133@...>
Date: 2006-01-06

Even with no toner on the component pads, the nearby toner would
melt?

I'm not thinking of just a blanket coating of toner over everything,
but of using a negative image of the soldermask layer to make the TT
soldermask coating fit around all of the solder pads just like real
soldermask.

Mike



> My experience with this is that the temperature of the soldering
iron will
> melt away the toner, defeating the purpose of the solder mask.
> I used to not even bother to remove the toner after etching, and
just
> solder the pins right through the toner. I stopped doing that
because,
> while it worked, it looked like crap.
>
> -carl
>