I love you, man! I wish I new what the true answer to your question
is. I don't know. I don't know what temperature is at the cylinder
('conductor'), but I can tell you few hints. To my greatest surprise,
the (not to say 'that') laminator was running 'hot', much hotter that
I thought laminators needs to be. And more, after few runs with the
board (couple times- I ran it 5 times) thru the laminator the board
could not be held in hand directly. When I used ironing, I tried all
kinds of combinations, high temp, preheating in hte oven and
pressure. I should have said in my posts that while it worked on
small boards, I could not a make a pCB, say, 4"x6" that way. That's
why I kept looking. If one wants to make 1"x1" or 2"x2" or maybe even
3"x3" they might be able to use a regular hot iron. It's the
unpredictability of the standard process that lead me to HC200
laminator.
Go to GBC website and check with them, I think there is something
similar on your side of the lake, but you will have to take a risk of
testing. It can be that ANY laminator (well, almost any) might work
and for some reason that wasn't told loud enough, that's why I am
trying to bring that point accross: HC 200 laminator does wonderful
job of 'near-photoimaging' from a laser printer printing onto an
inkjet printer....
Mike
--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Derryck Croker <derryck@n...>
wrote:
> Hi mikezcnc,
>
> > Billy, this is a classic question on the subject.
> >
> > A laminator HC 200 from GBC, can be had for $90, lock stock and
> > barrell. It provides wonderfull results as evidenced on
www.pulse.gs
>
> Is there a UK equivalent to this or the smaller model? The HC's
seems to be
> for US mains only.
>
> The real question must be what temperature does the HC range run at?
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Derryck