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Subject: Re: Xylene Transfer (Was: TT Technique)

From: "alioth10" <dyls@...>
Date: 2007-12-02

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Watson Fawkes"
<watson.fawkes@...> wrote:
>
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Bob Macklin <rottenrobbie0@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I read something on a web page about transfering the
> > image with a solvent pen. I tried it with acetone and
> > the image transfered very nicely.
>
> I have seen the results of color toner transfer from paper to a t-shirt
> that was done with xylene to lift the toner off its substrate.

I made the potentially serendipitous discovery that oranges will lift
toner off paper when some juice from an orange I was peeling squirted
onto the back of a face down piece of laser printed paper,
transferring the image to my desk...

It's probably the citric acid that did it. If it will do it (without
smearing), citric acid's probably a lot less hazardous than xylene.