Huh? He didn't even mention using a hacked laser printer fuser in that
message.
And I don't see how it would be wrong if he had mentioned it. It ain't
like he's selling them, someone asks where to get a laminator and he
suggests what he's done as a possibility.
Steve Greenfield
--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "mycroft2152" <mycroft2152@y...>
wrote:
> Hey Stefan,
>
> Lighten up a little bit and stop kicking a dead horse, you made your
> point. Not everyone wants to or has the room for the guts to an old
> laser printer attached to a chicken barbeque motor on their
> workbench.
...snip...
> Let's keep this a open discussion of the many ways to improve
> homebrew pcb's rather than forcing one method on us all.
>
> Myc
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Stefan Trethan"
> <stefan_trethan@g...> wrote:
...
> >
> > luckily, if you coat the pages with high-temp silicone yourself it
> is
> > everything but non-stick, you can't slide a page coated in that
> way
> > against a smooth surface. (Kind of like the rubber mats for old
> people to
> > put in the bathtub so they don't slip).
> >
> >
> > But, my method of choice uses a sheet of heavy paper (thin
> cardboard) that
> > is folded in the center.
> >
> > Your printouts must have a 3cm+ excess paper on one edge (same
> edge).
> >
> > Align your printouts against a light source, no pcb inserted or
> anyting.
> > hold together with right hand on the center of the printouts.
> > Now open the folded cardboard with left hand, and put the
> printouts in it
> > with the excess paper in the fold. hold the things together, from
> the
> > outside of the cardboard, over the excess paper. now open the
> printouts up
> > and slide PCB in (take care to get the component legend on the non-
> copper
> > side if you do one side copper and one side legend, don't ask...).
> now
> > hold together over the PCB (from outide the cardboard) and feed
> into fuser
> > with folded edge first.
> >
> > I usually give it a second run without the cardboard, for the
> added
> > thickness makes the heating take longer (I turn the thing over for
> the
> > second run).
> >
> > It works well.
> >
> > What i wonder sometimes is if it would be easier to sand one edge
> of the
> > board to a centered sharp edge and simply fold the paper over..
> >
> > ST