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Subject: Re: Copper plating material(s) for a neophyte - tinning brush

From: "Steve" <alienrelics@...>
Date: 2006-01-10

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Stefan Trethan"
<stefan_trethan@g...> wrote:

> I know people who simply mix solid chunks of colophony resin with
> methylated spirits (ethanol alcohol) and apply it with a paintbrush.

For those of us in the US, I believe you mean what would be called
"denatured alcohol" here. It is primarily ethanol (grain alcohol,
therefore drinkable by itself) mixed with methanol to make it toxic.

Steve Greenfield