I recently ran across a booklet that I had bought (online) a number of years ago that describes, in pretty good detail, a process for making PCBs with plated through holes. The process it describes uses an electroless copper plating process to get copper onto the walls of the holes, then electroplating copper to deposit the final layer of copper, and finally, the photoresist application, developing and etching The photoresist and developing chemicals that the author specifies in the booklet are rather expensive. I have looked high and low on the web for any reference to this booklet, without success. The booklet contains no copyright info, not even the author's name. I've scanned the document and am willing to make it available to the group. I'd like to get set up to try this process if someone could recommend some alternative photo chemicals (much less expensive) to use in the process. I can see that this process could indeed produce some high quality multilayer boards, but for a hobbyist, the expense is just too high using the photo chemicals suggested in the document. The original document specified Kepro chemicals, but I found that Kepro was transformed into D&L Products, Inc (Dalpro). I updated the text to reflect current contact info. I'll post the document to the files area, and would love to hear comments (pro and con). The document is titled "The PTH Process For Homebrewers", and is a PDF document. Dave M A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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PTH Process
2012-02-25 by Dave M
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