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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Sponge etching with HCl and H2O2?

From: Piers Goodhew <piers@...>
Date: 2011-11-29

Thanks mates, I'm about to move to the UK (where persulphate seems a lot less common :-/ ), so I don't want to be lugging a litre of HCl, but is it just called "muriatic acid"?

PG

On 29/11/2011, at 9:13 PM, Tony Smith wrote:

> > and after getting your exercise lifting the lead flashing, have a look at
> the
> > aluminium ( no, that's not misspelt ) flashing now available. I think it
> has great
> > potential for shielding, groundplane construction etc.
>
> I've seen that stuff, not cheap but still much cheaper than the lead. I was
> thinking of doing some plating so the lead would have been handy, I didn't
> need a whole roll though.
>
> Drink cans are a good source of thin aluminium sheet - plastic coated too.
>
> Tony
>
>