I don't see how your comment has anything to do with Mikes idea.
Yes, the toner and the paper are charged the same. So what? They
have been loosing their charge since they came out of the printer
(static dissapates) and now have little or no charge relative to the
environment around them as well as no charge relative to each other.
The point is that he has charged the blank PCB now. Some or most of
the Toner will then jump up to the blank. As long as he flips the
blank over before the charge dissapates, that toner is going to stay
on the board.
Now, he takes the blank, with the un-fused toner on it, at sets it
in a hotplate. At this point, the toner melts onto the blank. There
is no paper to remove, the toner isn't going to come off and we are
ready to etch.
I think its brilliant. Any other snide remarks you want to make? or
are you just repeating what you learned from others as documented at:
http://www.crankorgan.com/whodabitchnow.htmJames.
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "crankorgan" <john@k...> wrote:
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> I think you should read this page
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> http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/summer/scor/articles/scor54.htm
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> Once the toner is on the paper the charge of the paper and the
toner
> are the same. While some toner might stick to the board some will
also
> stay on the paper. The horse is out of the barn so to speak. The
> transfer needed to make good circuit boards has to be near perfect.
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