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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Zoran's plotter

2006-03-27 by Alan King

Len Warner wrote:

>At Sun, 26 Mar 2006, zoran_vasiljevic wrote:
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>>...plotter...uses melted  paraffin wax, for drawing on PCB laminate
>>http://ca.geocities.com/zoran_vasiljevic2000/index.html
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>Ingeneous! - but you won't get anything near the claimed
>2.5 - 3.5 Watt wax pen heating with the circuit in slika03h.jpg
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  That does look interesting.  Makes me want to take my old Epson stylus 
and dump out the black cart and put in some paraffin.  If all it needs 
is some extra heating to make an inkjet work, that would be the way to 
go, much easier than straightening out a laser path..


Alan

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