Homebrew PCBs

In article <igb6m8+je59@...>,
   nathan_h_tna <nathan_h_tna@...> wrote:
> I was thinking of buying a good sized sheet of fairly thin acrylic from
> Lowes or Home Depot, cutting it up into two big pieces for the front and
> back of the tank, two tall but narrow pieces for the sides, and then
> gluing it all together with some of that plastic weld stuff. 

I was looking at doing that too. My existing (commercial) bubble-etch tank
is on the way out. However, investigating the chemical resistant
properties of acrylic I discovered that after a very short time, Ferric
Chloride will cause it to craze and crack.

What the experience of others on this list is, I wait to see the comments
here.

-- 
Stuart Winsor

Midland RISC OS show - Sat July 9th 2011