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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] How do you suspend your PC board in the etching tank?

From: Philip Pemberton <ygroups@...>
Date: 2012-03-24

On 22/03/12 15:11, sheldon_mp_cooper wrote:
> Do you use a DIY basket? Drill a hole and attach a length of fishing line? I'm looking for the easiest method that avoids a mess and allows even etching by not significantly disrupting the rising bubbles in the tank.

I drill a 1.2mm hole in the corner then run a length of thin insulated
wire through it.

I bought a hundred-metre reel of the stuff at a hamfest. It's too
thickly-insulated to use as wire-wrap wire, and too thin and weak for
hookup wire. So it gets used to suspend PCBs in the etch tank! :)

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Phil.
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