I'm very glad to hear it finally worked.
I had some disencouraging results in the beginning too.
I really think you will soon get rid of the problems you have now, I have
only done a few boards with this method but the learning curve
is very steep from the point of first useable results.
I am now confident that i can have a 10 mil boards in a few minutes with
prectically
no preparation.
I'm just downloading your image from the files section.
Isn't it a bit big?
i have saved it as jpeg and uploaded to your folder
it has only 100kbyte not 3mbyte as yours.
Please delete the tiff image, the jpeg has no data loss and safes LOADS of
space.
Stefan
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:17:37 -0000, mikezcnc <eemikez@...> wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> Your patient guidance helped me to create a PCB using a tone transfer
> method. Look in the files section:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBs/files/Tone%
> 20Transfer_mikez/
>
> Since my latest post I was able to successfully iron the image and etch
> it. Yes, there are few small problems like shorts and missing tracks but
> overall comparing to what I had until today it is a 99.99 success rate.
>
> What helped me is your advice that pressure is not significant and that
> you had more success with low pressure. So did I. In fact, I can attribut
> my shorts to high pressure (before I understood what you really meant).
>
> The dark smear is from imprper washing of laser print with acetone: I
> rubed it into the board.
>
> Stefan, I am thrilled with that method. I was able to do the board from
> printo dry PCB under one hour and not ruching. Next time I can probably
> do it under 30 minutes. Thank you for all your help!!!
>
> Mike
>
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