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Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Print etch-resist

From: Johnathan Corgan <jcorgan@...>
Date: 2004-03-27

pebo festus wrote:

> still full of ideas, i got my ink carts in last week
> and printed on a pcb with the regular ink, it dried
> real hard, couldnt smuge it with my finger, but etch
> washed it off.i think we are trying to make something
> hard out of printing on a pcb, came up with the though
> of just mixing the FUTURE with the ink in the cart.
> will have to take all the ink out and try different
> amounts of FUTURE in the ink. i mixed 2 parts FUTURE
> with 1 part glycol and it hardened. havent etched it
> though. the original ink in the carts have glycol in
> it, so may work.
> I am going to CA for 10 days, so will not get to do
> much work on the pcb printing for a while.

And all of us lurkers who are avidly following your experiments wish to
say ∗thank you∗ for spending the money, time and effort to see what you
can accomplish. We will benefit greatly, but you will have done the
hard work!

Enjoy your trip to CA and we look forward to your future reports.

73 de Johnathan, AE6HO