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Re: Dry Film Laminator

2012-01-10 by Robert

thaat would be interesting to see what result is possible...


this short video presentation I found on the PLUS site explains the DLP mirror chip fairly well


http://www.plus-america.com/papers.html


Robby

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, MIKE DURKIN <Patriot121@...> wrote:
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> Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: Dry Film Laminator
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