I use a 5 Gallon Aquarium installed three rows of 1/2" CPVC pipe across the bottom and feed it from both ends with a small air compressor. Don't recall the size holes I drilled into the pipe, maybe 1mm. The small Aquarium pump that I had used with a smaller tank did not work nor did a larger Aquariium pump work very well with the 5 gallon tank, even tried 2 pumps together. Had this small portable compressor and tried it and it worked great, just a little noisy. Put a value in the line to control the amount of bubbles. I use Ferric Chloride in my tank. With fresh Ferric Chloride it will etch upto (4) 8" x 12" single sided boards in about 5 mins. (longer times the more the Ferric Chloride has been used) with it heated, use (2) Aquarium heaters to heat it, ran the temp. controls up all the way bypassing the normal stop, never measured the Temperature. Ben
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Re: bubbler system
2004-12-08 by Ben H. Lanmon
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