> Have you considered heating the pcb's on that inverted iron instead of
> the oven? Might not make the kitchen warm but should accomplish the
> same thing.
>
> Thanks for that detailed report, Bill. Very well done.
>
> Wayne
I hadn't though of that and it's a clever idea, but the oven route
isn't much of a hassle at all (for me, anyway) and I at least know its
temperature of operation accurately. The temperature reading on the
optical thermo I use is within 5-10F of the indication on my oven's
digital temperature indicator when it's pointed at pre-heated objects
in the oven (objects that don't have shiny aluminum surfaces, that is).
For someone like a college dorm resident whose only access to an oven
might be down the hall in a community kitchen area, the iron route may
be the way to go. Through experimentation they could determine what
setting to use on their particular iron.
However, my need for pre-heated PCBs in the first place was the result
of my taking a chance and buying a new and undocumenetd model from of
a line of laminators previously documentd as "very good" in this
forums database and finding that the new model was "not very good" for
toner transfer use. I'll be documenting this in the database and I
encourage everyone else here to document their experiences with other
laminator models.
Thanks,
Bill