Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "designer_craig" <cs6061@...> wrote:
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> 
> I thought I would try the Staples photo basic paper today.    Staples
> must be using a different supplier, it doesn't work at all any more.   
> I got a good image but I just could not get the paper off.  I looks like
> there is a plastic layer just under the surface on both sides.   With
> some work I was able to pull the first plastic layer off.   The the
> water and some scrubbing worked to remove the rest of the paper down to
> the second plastic layer.    The second plastic layer just would not
> come off, it was sort of bonded to the Cu.    In one sense it was great
> you could see a nice clear image of the toner.
> 
> This stuff was really, really  stuck to the board!!  I tried acetone,
> MEK and  methylene chloride based paint stripper without sucess.  I
> finally had to sand off the plastic layer and toner.
> 
> I guess I will go back to the magazene paper sheets.
> 
> Craig
>


I heard the same thing. I have some of the old Staples paper I bought several years ago when I first tried this process. It works, but not any better than junkmail paper, and it's more work to scrub it off. I just keep it around now in case I want to print something on stiff glossy paper.