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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: CD shaped PCB

2011-04-22 by Kevin Impson

Hi James,

Here is a youtube vid for a 1 watt blue laser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rl3w8nG1kU

Kevin I.





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From: James <jamesrsweet@...>
To: Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, April 21, 2011 3:55:17 PM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: CD shaped PCB

  

> 
> 
> But I do like the idea in principal and I am planning on upping the
> energy quite a bit by installing a 1W laser diode (IR or blue) and
> trying  paint evaporation again. It may just work on a thinnest (0.7
> mil's the thinnest?) PCB I can find...
> 

I think you'd have a lot better luck with the laser on an X-Y gantry. Even then 
I don't think you could burn off resist with even a 1W diode, but I've thought 
about trying to make a photo plotter for UV resist.


 

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