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Thanks for the info.

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From: <JanRwl@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Totaly OFF topic .. but who cares. (case front
panels)


>
> In a message dated 1/10/2006 7:01:40 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> pharmapack@... writes:
>
> what kind of "photo-sensitising" you did on the
> aluminum.
>
>
>
> This was at least 25 years back, but I THINK I used the General Cement
> (?)
> firm's photosensitive spray. It comes in a small aerosol can, and sprays
> on
> as a transparent pink, and one must of course do that in subdued light.
> Then
> cover it with a box or something to let it dry overnight. The stuff I
> used,
> as I recall, had to then be exposed with UV or sunlight for a
> considerable
> time, compared to "photography exposing", with the negative-film held
> flat on
> it in a contact-exp. frame. I have since seen pre-sensitized PCB stock
> in
> 4x6" and up pieces advertised on the ad-pages of hobby-electronics type
> mags.
> NO clue how those work; faster, or what.
>