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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Lez <lez.briddon@...> wrote:
> I'd love to understand how your doing it?
>
> Are you saying it works?
>
> It sounds like you are saying you apply glue to paper, then print,
> iron on, then soak off, and the toner stays just like TT but less
> rubbing?
>
>
> I just tried a teflon flexible baking sheet, but its not smooth enough
> the sheet has a weave and this makes a pattern in the transferred
> toner, and it does not all come off the sheet, so one pcb will mark
> the next, so no good.
>
Since I dont have the proper american words for some items, I'll try to
explain instead. Yes, it works! The easiest way would be to find
paper, coated with that glue that gets sticky with moist, like licking
on a stamp or closing an envelope. But since I couldn't find anywere to
buy it, i make my own, by coating matte photo paper for inkjets with
Gum arabique. That glue does not melt from the heat, but dissolve
easily in water, leaving the toner on the copper without any rubbing.
The problem I'm working on now is to get a smooth surface when coating,
rubber scrape (for window cleaning) seems as a way to go.
//Lars