Homebrew PCBs

I've acquired a roll of liquidated Aqua-Mer PR photoresist film that I
intend to cut up into smaller quantities for sale on Ebay (toot! toot!).
My question: what is the correct developer?  I picked up a bottle from a
downtown shop that turned out to be a sodium hydroxide solution, which I'd
rather not mess with given that it's relatively unforgiving with
overdevelopment.


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David Griffith
dgriffi@...

David Griffith wrote:
> I've acquired a roll of liquidated Aqua-Mer PR photoresist film that I
> intend to cut up into smaller quantities for sale on Ebay (toot! toot!).
> My question: what is the correct developer?  I picked up a bottle from a
> downtown shop that turned out to be a sodium hydroxide solution, which I'd
> rather not mess with given that it's relatively unforgiving with
> overdevelopment.

Sodium hydroxide is stripper. Try 10g/L sodium carbonate at 25-30degC.

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Russell Shaw wrote:

> David Griffith wrote:
> > I've acquired a roll of liquidated Aqua-Mer PR photoresist film that I
> > intend to cut up into smaller quantities for sale on Ebay (toot! toot!).
> > My question: what is the correct developer?  I picked up a bottle from a
> > downtown shop that turned out to be a sodium hydroxide solution, which I'd
> > rather not mess with given that it's relatively unforgiving with
> > overdevelopment.
>
> Sodium hydroxide is stripper. Try 10g/L sodium carbonate at 25-30degC.

I remember sodium silicate being referenced as a developer.  Is that only
for positive spray resist?

-- 
David Griffith
dgriffi@...

David Griffith wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Russell Shaw wrote:
> 
>>David Griffith wrote:
>>
>>>I've acquired a roll of liquidated Aqua-Mer PR photoresist film that I
>>>intend to cut up into smaller quantities for sale on Ebay (toot! toot!).
>>>My question: what is the correct developer?  I picked up a bottle from a
>>>downtown shop that turned out to be a sodium hydroxide solution, which I'd
>>>rather not mess with given that it's relatively unforgiving with
>>>overdevelopment.
>>
>>Sodium hydroxide is stripper. Try 10g/L sodium carbonate at 25-30degC.
> 
> I remember sodium silicate being referenced as a developer.  Is that only
> for positive spray resist?

It may work too. I'm not so familiar with all the chemical alternatives.
I couldn't find references on google. To use sodium silicate for positive
resist, it can be mixed with sodium hydroxide:

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