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

I recently ran across a booklet that I had bought (online) a number of years
ago that describes, in pretty good detail, a process for making PCBs with
plated through holes. The process it describes uses an electroless copper
plating process to get copper onto the walls of the holes, then
electroplating copper to deposit the final layer of copper, and finally, the
photoresist application, developing and etching The photoresist and
developing chemicals that the author specifies in the booklet are rather
expensive.
I have looked high and low on the web for any reference to this booklet,
without success. The booklet contains no copyright info, not even the
author's name. I've scanned the document and am willing to make it
available to the group. I'd like to get set up to try this process if
someone could recommend some alternative photo chemicals (much less
expensive) to use in the process. I can see that this process could indeed
produce some high quality multilayer boards, but for a hobbyist, the expense
is just too high using the photo chemicals suggested in the document.
The original document specified Kepro chemicals, but I found that Kepro was
transformed into D&L Products, Inc (Dalpro). I updated the text to reflect
current contact info.

I'll post the document to the files area, and would love to hear comments
(pro and con). The document is titled "The PTH Process For Homebrewers",
and is a PDF document.

Dave M
A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is
the beginning of a new argument.


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