12.13 Etcher's Paradise update

[Peteyboy]

Thanks for all this work

Seems like a good time to learn to etch finally.

[FX-Rated]

Insane!!! Building all of these will drive me Insane!  Thanks a looot!

[Superstereosix]

Totally insane!

[LaceSensor]

[Gledison]

Don't feed the animaaaaaaaaaaals!!
hehehe,
Thanks a lot Brian! i will already order 5 Galons of Ferric Chloride

[m-Kresol]

I'm looking forward to my first etching attempts. Always wanted to check out our polymer chemistry yellow rooms (UV-free) and use the UV chamber for curing the etching mask. Also, we've got tons of ferric chloride in the basement storage 

[micromegas]

I'm looking forward to my first etching attempts. Always wanted to check out our polymer chemistry yellow rooms (UV-free) and use the UV chamber for curing the etching mask. Also, we've got tons of ferric chloride in the basement storage 

I've use photosensitive boards many times and you don't really need a chamber, a fluorescent light in a dark room can give you very good results (I used to make pcbs in my kitchen..)

[m-Kresol]

I'm looking forward to my first etching attempts. Always wanted to check out our polymer chemistry yellow rooms (UV-free) and use the UV chamber for curing the etching mask. Also, we've got tons of ferric chloride in the basement storage 

I've use photosensitive boards many times and you don't really need a chamber, a fluorescent light in a dark room can give you very good results (I used to make pcbs in my kitchen..)

I'm well aware that you don't really need a UV chamber. It's more of a "Just because I can" thing

[micromegas]

I'm well aware that you don't really need a UV chamber. It's more of a "Just because I can" thing

Oh, man, you are going to miss all the fun then 

[guile]

Hail to the madbean!

[ggarms]

Hey where do you guys get your copper clad from? I've been trying a few different suppliers lately- I found a guy on Ebay with red board (which excited me because who doesn't want colored PCBs), however the stuff was barely thicker than a few pages of newspaper and the traces come off rather easily.I've had success with steve's fr4 over at SB, and I just tried tayda's with decent results. Any other ideas/suppliers come to mind?

[billstein]

Hey where do you guys get your copper clad from? I've been trying a few different suppliers lately- I found a guy on Ebay with red board (which excited me because who doesn't want colored PCBs), however the stuff was barely thicker than a few pages of newspaper and the traces come off rather easily.I've had success with steve's fr4 over at SB, and I just tried tayda's with decent results. Any other ideas/suppliers come to mind?

I've been getting mine from abcfab on Ebay. It's thinner than Smallbears but I haven't had any problems with it. He sells different colors.

[icecycle66]

It's been five days since someone commented here.


nnghhh

[davent]

Hey where do you guys get your copper clad from? I've been trying a few different suppliers lately- I found a guy on Ebay with red board (which excited me because who doesn't want colored PCBs), however the stuff was barely thicker than a few pages of newspaper and the traces come off rather easily.I've had success with steve's fr4 over at SB, and I just tried tayda's with decent results. Any other ideas/suppliers come to mind?

I use MG Chemicals presensitized boards which i can get locally or if ordering from Digikey, from them. If i'm in Toronto i can get Kinsten presensitized boards which are also available on ebay from various far east sellers but at no real cost advantage. The ones i did get from Asia however used a nice translucent white/green substrate as opposed to the gross brown/green crud colour of every other presensitized board i've ever purchased.
dave

[Strategy]

Watching this thread closely, mainly because it has a few of the Tim Escobedo projects I've never been able to get to work, like Phuncgnosis! Mr. Madbean -- looking forward!!!
Strategy