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----- Original Message -----
From: "sm4rzw" <sm4rzw@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 3:26 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Some toner transfer experiments


> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Leon Heller" <leon.heller@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "sm4rzw" <sm4rzw@...>
>> To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:33 AM
>> Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Some toner transfer experiments
>>
>>
>> > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Leon Heller" <leon.heller@>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Dextrin is the stuff you need, it's available from home-brewing
>> > shops. It's
>> >> also used as an adhesive.
>> >>
>> >> Leon
>> >>
>> >
>> > I've tried Dextrin, a type of modified starch. Makes good
> coatings, but
>> > cant handle the heat from the ironing; gets brown, smells and wont
>> > solve in water afterwards.
>>
>> I'm sure that people have used it successfully. The Pulsar TT paper
> uses it:
>>
>>
> http://www.pulsar.gs/PCB/a_Pages/4_Products/4a_Transfer_Paper/Transfer
> _paper.html
>>
>> Leon
>>
> Obviously, yes. Maybe I overheated it. Or some other difference.
> I made the dextrine I used myself (potato starch powder in oven @180
> degC, then solve it in water, filtrate, let water evaporate)
> ..have to try that out again :-)

Starch has to be hydrolysed - boiled with water under pressure - to form
dextrin. It's actually a type of sugar.

Leon

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