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

I think it's now considered "chassis" or front panel material. That off green, nearly pastel seaweed color. HP probably still has the color code somewhere in their archives. I remember that color like it was yesterday. The "new" boards(90's) were the modern green. The old or milspec/aviation boards were that translucent bluish green. As for dying them, I recall the company that made "oaktree" solvent made dyes for fiberglass. I don't think oaktree is available to civilians even 30 years later, but the dyes should be. The solvent was the only earthly thing I've ever seen that could "unpot" full millspec/visa code chip assemblies, fully embedded in xray proof epoxy. I think that stuff was $1k a quart. The dye was as cheap as any other dye.