Homebrew PCBs

Hi, My name is Jose Kovacevich. This is my first post.

I have been making PCBs for some time now. Lately I have been using 
a heat press, of the kind used for t-shirts, and the Staples paper.

I set the press to 200 deg (centigrade), and in 60 seconds, I get a 
perfect transfer almost every time (a couple times there were small 
track sections in the edges not getting transfered, easily fixed 
with permanent marker).

By the way, I am from Monterrey, Mexico.

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Reed" <jsreed@...> wrote:
>
> I was discussing using a household clothes iron to apply toner 
resist
> with a friend of mine, and discovered he had a heat press - the 
kind
> that puts iron on transfer designs on T shirts.  Since I was very
> unhappy with the household iron technique, I took him up on his 
offer
> of trying it out on his press.  We preheated the press to 300 
Degrees
> Farhenheit, and placed the circuit board and magazine paper in the
> press between 2 pieces of printer paper.  We got to talking about
> other things, and wound up leaving it in the press for 6 minutes.  
> The design transferred real well, but it also had penetrated the
> magazine's paper.  As a result, I had to soak the paper for over a
> half hour, and even then some of the toner was rubbed off with the
> paper, and  I couldn't rub some of the paper off of the toner.  
> It etched real well.  I had a plastic tub about an inch shorter 
than
> the board, so I put a small amount of etchant in the bottom of the 
tub
> and used a natural bristle brush to "brush on" etchant at the 
highest
> point of the board.
> If I had it to do over again, I would try 2 or 3 minutes in the 
press
> maximum.  I feel the toner wound up spreading out some and losing
> resolution when I left it in too long.  It's still perfectly 
usable,
> just not as pretty as it could be.
>