Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Homebrew PCBs

previous by date index next by date
previous in topic topic list next in topic

Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] sluggish etchant

From: DJ Delorie <dj@...>
Date: 2008-06-18

"Herbert E. Plett" <cachureos@...> writes:
> perhaps a little more HCl is needed, it also fumes out...

Follow-up:

CuCl concentration is below 1.2 (which I figured).

Acid seems high enough. I heated some copper wire to get Copper
Oxides, and the etchant dissolved that just fine, leaving a bright
pinkish copper behind. I did that a few times to get more copper into
the tank, and then left the wire in there. Perhaps by the time I get
around to fiddling with it again it will be more usable, otherwise
I'll put in more H2O2.

I did make up some NaOH solution for titration but it neeeds time to
fully dissolve.