Now- I thought I might share my insights on microwaving FeCl.. I no longer use FeCl for obvious reasons. But when I did, I would etch my boards in a shallow pyrex dish. I had great success with microwaving the entire setup- dish, board and all in the microwave. No sparks, fires or splashes. Usually cooked for ~1 min. to get reasonably hot. One thing to watch out for is the caustic gas (esp. when opening micro door)- I personally use a 3M gas mask from home depot whenever I etch to avoid lung injury (hey- I'm 19- I plan to live for a while :)
-k
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Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.comSent: Mon, 21 May 2007 8:36 AM
Subject: RE: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: "Microwaving" Ferric Chloride
Oh, I think his comments were sincere, a little sarcastic perhaps.
Unfortunately sarcasm tends to be lost on pedantic douches who post huge
slabs of crap no-one - not me, not you, not Richard, and not even the bloke
who posted it - is ever going to read. Kudos to Richard for deleting the
"huge slab of crap no-one is ever going to read" from his reply. Those on
digest mode will thank you from the depths of their uncluttered inbox.
"Boiling FeCl is probably bad, m'kay" would have done.
Heating is heating, whether it's in a microwave or in your teapot. The
"huge slab of crap no-one is ever going to read" probably leaves out the
real reason you don't microwave FeCl, and that's your wife will kill you
when you spill it all over the kitchen floor. She'd kill you even if it
were cold, but that's besides the point.
Tony
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> Sent: Monday, 21 May 2007 10:42 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: "Microwaving" Ferric Chloride
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> Hey-
> Lets keep the attitude professional here.
> Incensere comments are unnecessary.
> Thanks and best regards,
> -Kevin Wolf
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>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Sun, 20 May 2007 11:42 AM
> Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: "Microwaving" Ferric Chloride
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> THANK you so much for that ENTIRE document; completely
> unedited....including all the useless/irrelevant disclaimers,
> etc, etc..
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> Next time, just post a link, ok? That's how it's done on
> groups like this.
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