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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Photo-resist etching questions....

2007-05-21 by Roland F. Harriston

I threw away my last sheets of Rubylith about
five years ago.

Time goes by.

Roland F. Harriston
*******************

twb8899 wrote:
>
> Roland,
>
> Sounds like we both go back a bit in the industry. We used to do
> red-blue separations and pad masters. Everything was shot on a Brown
> 3000 horizontal camera. I bought my first photoplotter in 1987 and
> sold the Brown camera. Kept a smaller Eskofot vertical camera that I
> still have and use on occasion. Most of the time I use a table top
> Lavenir photoplotter. Also have a Gerber Crescent 30 photoplotter in
> storage but haven't used it in several years. I bought the Lavenir
> plotter in 1989 and it's never failed yet. That machine just keeps on
> running. It may become obsolete along with the cameras when rapid
> access film is no longer available. I still have some rubylith film
> and use it once in a while!
>
> Tom
>
> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com 
> <mailto:Homebrew_PCBs%40yahoogroups.com>, "Roland F. Harriston"
> <rolohar@...> wrote:
> >
> > twb8899:
> >
> > I also remember cutting "Rubylith",
> > but I guess that sort of stuff is gone
> > forever.
> >
> > "Coordinatograph" pops up in my
> > memory.
> >
> > Roland F. Harriston
> > *****************
>
>

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