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Subject: RE: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: CuCl etchant - an update

From: <twgray2007@...>
Date: 2013-09-04

To clarify, the board was turning pinkish, like it does if you wipe a plated board with FeCl, starting to etch.


--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, <homebrew_pcbs@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 23:46:25 -0000, you wrote:



>Pink? should be green or some shade of.



Pink was the color of the copper, not the solution.



Harvey



>Sam

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>Read this.

> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~eseychell/PCB/etching_CuCl/

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>--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com , <twgray2007@...> wrote:

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>> OK, I tried bubbling air through the mixture for about 24 hours with no change.  I heated to about 40 C and placed a PCB in just to test and after about 25 minutes it had just started to turn pink from etching.  The volume was at about 1/2 gallon and to this I added about 1/2 cup of HCL and left the board in for another 30 minutes with little change. 

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>> I think I will now put a lot of copper wire in, at 40 C and let it run to see if it will "take off", as you put it.

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