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Subject: Harbor Freight Laminator Modified

From: Mike <k4gmh@...>
Date: 2011-12-15

Hello,

Finished making the conversion of a Harbor Freight Laminator to do toner
transfer using Techniks Toner Transfer film.

The conversion, in addition to increasing the opening to the rollers as
described in a previous post, was to remove the original snap action temp.
controller. The snap temp. controller was replaced with a digital
controller obtained from Deal Extreme,
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/digital-temperature-controller-66334, as
suggested by Tony Smith.

Several double sided, 0.0625 inch thick, PCB boards have been made with
good results. Techniks Toner Transfer film was used. The toner was put on
the film by a copier at a local United Postal Service store.

The original was generated by an ink jet printer. The quality of the
original is important for the quality of the toner transfer using the
copier approach that I use.

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73,
Mike, K4GMH


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