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Re: what to do once I'm done

2003-10-16 by wheedal99

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "mr_gees100_peas" 
<geovar13@h...> wrote:
> I'm new at this and I want to do my first pcb. I have a cad 
software, 
> copper board, ferric chloride, drills, ect, ect. By doing a lot of 
> reading I think I have a god idea on how to do it. However, of all 
> the webpages and articles I found on how to make a pcb non of them 
> talk about what to do with the left over feric chloride. I don't 
> think my sewage piping would like me dumping the stuff down the 
> toilet and neither would the enviromentalist. So, my question is, 
> what am I suposed to do with the feric chloride once I make my 
first 
> pcb? Do I have to take it to a collectionn falicility? Is there a 
way 
> to neutralise it so I can dump it in the drain and is so, is this 
> legal or good to do?

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