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Re: Dextrin as release from TT paper

2004-09-10 by leon_heller

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Leon Heller" 
<leon_heller@h...> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Norman Stewart" <normstewart@a...>
> To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 6:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Dextrin as release from TT paper
> 
> 
> > Haven't tried this, but would spraying the paper (any paper) with 
laundry
> > spray starch give a usable surface?  Since the iodine test 
indicates a
> > starch (dextrin?), just might be similar enough. And would 
prepasted
> > wallpaper, which you said has a dextrin content, work - printing 
on the
> > paste side?
> > Just a couple of late night thoughts while reading the e-mails.
> 
> Dextrin isn't starch. It's made by hydrolysing starch - boiling it 
with
> water.

Thinking about it, stuff like spray starch and wallpaper paste will 
actually be dextrin, not raw starch.

Leon

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