Homebrew PCBs

On 28 Sep 2004, at 17:08, Kev Pearce ((kevp.com)) wrote:

> What do people think of Press-n-Peel Dry Blue?
>
> I've been reading lots of talk of other systems but for convenience 
> these look like a proven of the shelf system? Does it literally work 
> with a domestic iron or is a laminator a far better approach?

It's meant to be used with a domestic iron, but I never had much luck 
with that.

A better approach is to use a laminator to tack the PNP to the copper 
first (introduce the PCB in with a corner first), then put the sandwich 
onto a folded newspaper, a piece of kitchen paper on top, then rest a 
hot smoothing iron on top for a minute. Then back into the laminator 
for a few passes.

The GBC 950 laminator is supposed to be able to reach a high enough 
temp. to not need the iron to get there, so if you want to 
experiment...

> Like most UK hobbyist we lack some of the specialist places to get 
> bits and pieces and I usually use Maplin and it is pretty much all 
> they do apart from UV based systems.

Sure, the UV approach is time-consuming.

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Cheers

Derryck