Chris,
I only started to use this method last week, when I ran out
of photo resist board. I have made about ten boards now with 2
failures which was due to the paper. I tried all the photo glossy
paper I had and the best results were with Imation and Verbatim
which I had picked up at sales at local stores.
Barry
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Chris Horne" <chris@...> wrote:
>
> Barry,
>
> I saw your post and as I have up til now, unly used my wife's iron,
I
> thought I would get one (well, at least send her out to get one !)
>
> I tried it using the blue Press-n-peel first off, but it doesn't
seem
> to be hot enough to melt the toner from my laser .. (an HP 1010
with
> a remanufactured cartridge)
>
> I only got about 5% or less transfer even after passing it through
> half a dozen times. (leading me to believe it wasn't hot enough)
>
> I investigated the workings and it uses three sealed 10A temperature
> switchs at at 95 110 and 145 degrees C...
>
> To raise the temperature, I found a virtually identical switch at
> Rapid Electronics that should switch at 160 degrees C (but that is
as
> high as that particular range goes)I am quite happy to order one and
> see what happens... but
>
> Has anyone actually measured the temperature that the laminator
needs
> to run at to melt common toners ?
>
> Do we think 160 C (320 F) is hot enough ?
>
> Chris
>
>