Homebrew PCBs

Even with no toner on the component pads, the nearby toner would 
melt?

I'm not thinking of just a blanket coating of toner over everything, 
but of using a negative image of the soldermask layer to make the TT 
soldermask coating fit around all of the solder pads just like real 
soldermask.

Mike


 
> My experience with this is that the temperature of the soldering 
iron will 
> melt away the toner, defeating the purpose of the solder mask.
>   I used to not even bother to remove the toner after etching, and 
just 
> solder the pins right through the toner. I stopped doing that 
because, 
> while it worked, it looked like crap.
> 
> -carl
>