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Subject: Re: HCl Etchant Question

From: "James" <jamesrsweet@...>
Date: 2010-03-24

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Roger Blair" <Roger.Blair@...> wrote:
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> Just a hobby hacker here, not a chemist…
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> IIRC, 140F to become effective?. Wouldn’t this be a problem for this application?
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> I was going to try sodium perborate monohydrate, until I ran across that info.
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> Thanks,
>
> Roger


140F is not hard to achieve. I use a fish tank heater in the etching tank I built, I think I paid $3 for a bag of used aquarium accessories at a garage sale, there was the heater, a couple of air pumps, some tubing and other random bits. It will heat the etchant that hot no problem.