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

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:41:25 -0700, you wrote:

Would beat the heck out of a T-shirt press. Probably better than a
laminator.

However, the smooth sided one with a heat control would be needed,
probably have to make the heat control, and spacing would be
interesting.

Nice thought.

Harvey


> I'm very much interested in trying this laser toner transfer method for
>homebrewing single-sided PC boards, and the thought came to me that perhaps
>an electric waffle iron would be a more practical alternative than using a
>clothes iron. With the PC board material and the paper sandwiched between a
>couple of pieces of aluminum or copper plate, the heat and pressure would be
>more uniform and it would become a matter of applying the pressure for a
>suitable amount of time.
>
> But without any strawberries or blueberries. :{b
>
> Has anyone ever tried this approach?
>
>Chris
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