I haven't used glass ever, but provided you manage to make the glass
conductive, copper will deposite. It's likely that you can do this with
the palladium bath, it's another question though wether the copper will
stick to the glass or just fall off.
In terms of copper, I think using a foil with a glue is the way I think
where your chances of sucess are the best. You then still could use
through plating to plate the holes. Especially this makes kind of sense
to me cause it also would help to make the copper stick to the glass.
Wether the glue would react with the chemistry is yet another question
though....
I think this is something you either find someone with the needed
experience or else you are left with experimenting. As always in such
cases, you don't know at the beginning if it's going to be very
difficult or if you find a working solution quickly.
I don't think it's a good idea to start with 5 liter tanks unless you
really need this size because of the size of the PCBs. For chemistry
cost reasons but also handling and storeing space etc, I ended up
makeing all containers on my own cause only this way I could make them
as small as possible. The benefit of this is that you get away with a
minimum of the chemistry and a setup that you can handle easily and
safely. Remember, the baths HAVE to be replished and especially in case
of the palladium one replaced. The bigger the bath, the more you pay
every time it happens.
As for more information, schematics, measures, materials etc.etc. - I
beg you to wait for the pages to be finished cause otherwise I end up
documenting everything multiple times.
HTH
Markus
trevwhite74 schrieb:
>
> Glad you are setting up a page. You really deserve a lot of credit for
> this. My offer really was to help with your documentation. After all
> it is all your work.
>
> I am really interested in the process and really fancy trying it out.
> I also think it is great that you have shared all the information with
> others.
>
> I have actually found some plastic containers at the local
> supermarket. They are 5L capacity and fit a board up to size
> 200mmx270mm which is more than enough. They have sealable lids to
> them. I think this will really help with keeping the chemistry. What
> is most amazing is that they cost just £2 each.
>
> I need to read up again about the electrical side of your process.
> That sounds like it needs a bit of work to build. Do you have any more
> information available at present regarding that side of things?
> Schematics, etc?
>
> Another thing that I have been looking at is using glass. I do not
> know how well this will work out but do you think it is possible to
> adapt this system to plate glass?
>
> Trev
>
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