Harvey,
That’s what DLP (Direct Laser Printing) PCB is all about.
There was a lot of messages about this technique a while back.
I forgot who was the main poster about it, but there were description
for modifying the laser to direct print the artwork on the copper clad board.
You might want to search through the archive for DLP.
Just my $0.02,
Jean-Paul
N1JPL
> On Dec 26, 2016, at 10:20 AM, Harvey White madyn@... [Homebrew_PCBs] <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 22:43:13 -0700, you wrote:
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> >The Harbor Freight laminator doesn't get hot enough for the Brother
> >toner. In the process of raising the temperature I managed to soften the
> >gears to the point where they no longer turned the rollers. Replacing
> >the plastic gears with metal ones solves that problem, but only if the
> >plastic supports for the shafts are made of a higher temperature plastic.
> >
> >I am not familiar with the GBC laminator, except through reading about
> >it here in the group, so I don't know about what kind of gears it has.
> >If it works, don't fix it.
>
> Has anyone considered buying a junked laser printer from a thrift
> store, and using the fuser assembly?
>
> It would need some mechanical and electrical work, but that's what
> you're talking about anyway, just perhaps a bit more....
>
> (the other) Harvey
>
> >
> >Harvey
> >
> >
> >On 12/25/2016 8:35 PM, me@... [Homebrew_PCBs] wrote:
> >>
> >> What is the advantage to swapping out gears? I have been using a GBC
> >> Heatseal H212 for a number of years now with no issues. The only
> >> modification I made was to remove some guides to allow the PCB to pass
> >> through.
> >>
> >>
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