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Subject: Re: Salt water etchant

From: "Ted Bruce KX4OM" <kilocycles@...>
Date: 2007-07-16

No doubt that's true, David. The fact that he did iron-on from
magazine paper got my attention, as that is the only way I can get a
good transfer from my Brother HL-2040 (many threads on that here on
the group). I use Altoid tins a lot in my homebrew radio/test
equipment stuff, and he's removed all of the paint and copper plated
them. Interesting designs; I might have to try that.

By the way, I usually try brake fluid first when removing paint from
metal. I have an old mic stand (D-104) that I'm refinishing, and I
soaked the flaking paint off with the stuff.

Ted KX4OM
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, David Griffith <dgriffi@...> wrote:
>
---snip---
> > http://steampunkworkshop.com/altoid-etch.shtml
>
> It won't work for PCBs. Von Slatt's etchings only go a little bit into
> the metal whereas PCBs go all the way through. He does do some
stuff that
> involve going all the way through, but it's quite clear that the
> resolution is not very good at all.
>
>
> --
> David Griffith
> dgriffi@...
>
> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
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> A: Top-posting.
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