Homebrew PCBs

I love you, man! I wish I new what the true answer to your question 
is. I don't know. I don't know what temperature is at the cylinder 
('conductor'), but I can tell you few hints. To my greatest surprise, 
the (not to say 'that') laminator was running 'hot', much hotter that 
I thought laminators needs to be. And more, after few runs with the 
board (couple times- I ran it 5 times) thru the laminator the board 
could not be held in hand directly. When I used ironing, I tried all 
kinds of combinations, high temp, preheating in hte oven and 
pressure. I should have said in my posts that while it worked on 
small boards, I could not a make a pCB, say, 4"x6" that way. That's 
why I kept looking. If one wants to make 1"x1" or 2"x2" or maybe even 
3"x3" they might be able to use a regular hot iron. It's the 
unpredictability of the standard process that lead me to HC200 
laminator.

Go to GBC website and check with them, I think there is something 
similar on your side of the lake, but you will have to take a risk of 
testing. It can be that ANY laminator (well, almost any) might work 
and for some reason that wasn't told loud enough, that's why I am 
trying to bring that point accross: HC 200 laminator does wonderful 
job of 'near-photoimaging' from a laser printer printing onto an 
inkjet printer....

Mike


--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Derryck Croker <derryck@n...> 
wrote:
> Hi mikezcnc,
> 
> > Billy, this is a classic question on the subject.
> > 
> > A laminator HC 200 from GBC, can be had for $90, lock stock and
> > barrell. It provides wonderfull results as evidenced on 
www.pulse.gs
> 
> Is there a UK equivalent to this or the smaller model? The HC's 
seems to be
> for US mains only.
> 
> The real question must be what temperature does the HC range run at?
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> 
> Derryck