Homebrew PCBs

A few days ago someone posted that you could use candy apple green 
paint to paint a circuit board to look good.  Instantly I thought, 
wow, that would be about the right color.

Then I got to thinking, how the hell do you paint a circuit board?  Do 
you have to mask off all of the solder pads one-by-one?

Curious Chris :-)

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:00:52 +0200, lcdpublishing  
<lcdpublishing@...> wrote:

> A few days ago someone posted that you could use candy apple green
> paint to paint a circuit board to look good.  Instantly I thought,
> wow, that would be about the right color.
> Then I got to thinking, how the hell do you paint a circuit board?  Do
> you have to mask off all of the solder pads one-by-one?
> Curious Chris


the idea was to use a paint that can be soldered through, so you paint  
everything.
I haven't tried it myself.

ST

Testor's transparent paints aren't very heavy. I think the idea is 
that soldering temperatures will vaporize what little paint is 
covering the pad. (YMMV, I haven't used this method myself either.)

Regards, Bob

  --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, "Stefan Trethan" 
<stefan_trethan@g...> wrote:
> 
> the idea was to use a paint that can be soldered through, so you 
paint  

> everything.
> I haven't tried it myself.
> 
> ST