Homebrew PCBs

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:15 AM, terramir <terramircomputers@...> wrote:
> I've been doing etching with hcl (the safer stuff home depot) and hydrogen peroxide (sad to say only the 3% stuff from the grocery store.
> and as etch resist using toner transfer with HP photo paper and a brother hl5240 with a generic toner cart. and a run of the mill iron.
> Anyways Just wanted to intro myself to the group, today I'm actually going to try to find parchment paper since I saw online that it can work better and it could also be used for photoresist.
> Well I bought 100 uv led's but as of yet have not etched the circuit board to make that happen.
> well anyways hope to learn alot in this group, and well I saw something today some peeps were using black matt

Hello Terramir,

Welcome to the group.  When making PCBs at home, I use drafting paper
and UV LEDs:

  http://capnstech.blogspot.com/2011/05/playpause-making-pcbs-at-home.html

Works very well, 8mil features not a problem.  But next time, I'm
definitely using a spoonful of concentrated ferric chloride and a
sponge.

I tried toner transfer, but couldn't get reliable adhesion.

Mitch.
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