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Subject: Re: There is no way that water soluable paper will work for TT.

From: "Steve" <alienrelics@...>
Date: 2004-11-16

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "mikezcnc" <eemikez@c...> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> Idea is great... ...it is just too ideal to be true...
> ...Dextrin paper was supposed to do just that (and
> supposedly does it and we've been persuing that dextrin paper for
> long- now way to make it. Too tru to be beautiful... My opinion is
> from the sorts if it looks like a duck.

I'm a bit confused. Are you saying it sounds too much like it will
work, so it can't? Or that since something else didn't work, this
can't either?

...
> As far as what I said about this forum that we pretty much can close
> it down after I posted laminator+Staples paper solution, it still is
> true: no other major breakthru was made so far. Before that method
> make a PCB was a hit and miss, now it's sure thing. I keep debating
> if I should get rid of a UV exposure lamp.

I don't think I'd go -that- far. No method is without its issues.
After all, 20 years ago I made PCBs by putting drafting tape and
rub-on IC patterns onto clear film and using photo etching, should I
have never started this list because that worked?

> Oh, here is a manual for newcomers:
> http://www.technologystudent.com/pcb/pcb.htm

Good link. Should be posted here and on NW Propmasters.

Steve Greenfield