Mike - I'm not sure why your dad thought you were crazy, after all
someone had already made the paper with dextrin. Did he say why he
thought you would not succeed?
I didn't realize you had already had a go at this and your experience
is good to know about. What kind of Dextrin did you use?
Grant
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "mikezcnc" <eemikez@c...> wrote:
> Grant,
>
> My father is a chemical engineer who spent 40 years in paper
> industry. When I found out 6 moths ago that Pulsar used dextrin
> coated paper I knew I would have a product. I spent time and money
> making such paper trying all kinds of tricks (my father told me it
> was insane) and came to conclusion that it cannot be made at home but
> it is a great way to quickly learn how clean the laser printer. At
> that time I decided to forget about the TT and concentrated on UV
> exposure with excellent results, coating my own boards. Then came
> along the Staples paper and the laminator and we all know the rest of
> it- I became a TT convert.
>
> John Kleinbauer from www.kleinbauer.com, a small CNC machine site,
> used a fantastic comparison to baking. I like that example because I
> happen to have baked breads for more than 10 years. Yesterday I baked
> the world's worst bread! I must have been tired.
>
> As far as regular TT goes, the one that requires ironing, there are
> obviously two variables difficult to control (that come to mind):
> temperature and pressure (we know that). But keeping pressure at the
> max allows us to vary only temperature to achieve good results.
> I had 70% success rate when ironing and I have 100% using a
> laminator. Yes, I live in US and yes I took a second mortgage to buy
> the laminator at Staples... Mike