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| Hi i'm new to pcb fabrication. Can any one please tell me what is the easy way of pcb fabrication. I'm staying in india and here Press N Peel transfer paper is not available. So please suggest me the best and the most easy way of pcb making. | |
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| Most any kind of coated paper will work (to some degree...). The idea is to find paper that the toner sticks to, but not get fused to the paper fibers. After you re-fuse the toner onto the copper, soak in water. The paper breaks down, toner stays on the copper. Most important thing!!! Clean the copper very well, and don't get finger prints on it before transfering the toner. There is the photo-resist method, almost as easy, but higher cost, more chemicals, little more complicated (timing exposure, devoloping...). Perminent markers (least desirable, but works for simple boards). Rub-on decals (Press-N-Peel), not much better than using a pen, etchant seeps underneath... | |
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| Search the forum. There are a ton of people that have explained it. I sent a quick version to a fellow last week. Will cut and paste if I can find it.. Found it. Code: YOU NEED: Ferric Chloride plastic flat bottom bowl plastic knife (to move and remove board) copper clad board laser printer eagle cad picture paper (glossy business paper works best, photo paper worse) an iron a drill Think that is it. MAKING THE BOARD: Print the PCB on the picture paper and cut to size Cut copper to match paper size Clean the copper (very important part) I use wet sand paper, you can use ajax as well Wipe copper with denatured alcohol put paper on copper. heat iron on max heat put a paper towel over paper and board. press iron straight down center of iron on board * hold for 30 seconds * remove iron for a couple second and repeat * straight down and hold for 30 seconds * (that part make the paper stay in place on the copper) now slowly iron for 30-60 seconds, make sure you get the edges of the board, they are the hard part. After done, let it cool (turn of that iron too) Get a cup of warm water, sometimes a drop of dish soap (soap is not required) drop in the board. Wait 5-10 minutes. replace warm water with board in cup, and use thumbs to rub the paper off layer at a time, sometime paper falls off (but not often) with thumbs remove any paper film. ETCHING THE BOARD: You can use a plastic flat bowl or a ceramic (if ceramic you can warm the ferric chloride as that helps) fill enough to submerge the board. I put the board face down but make sure you move it around and the face is under the acid. If you move it on occasion for about 15 minutes, with the plastic knife, you will see the copper is gone. remove it, rinse it. I use acetone to remove the toner clean up my mess and drill the board with my old dremel press. That is it.. | |
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| I've never tried it, but you can buy teflon sheets the thickness of paper, should work as good or better than most other methods I've heard about.
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| Where can you get them (teflon paper) and will the laser like them? I will try it. The transparent plastic paper is $$$. Why I went to picture paper and then found the business gloss paper.. | |
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What is the model of your unit and is it all metal with a rack and pinion? I might buy an older model if they are any better than the 220. | ||
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I've never heard of anyone using that method, but of course that doesn't mean it can't work, just speculation. I'd be interested to hear of results if anyone tries it. Quote:
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| I am sure mine is not the 220, it is probably 15-20 years old. I have the battery operated demel in it, that does not fit, wrapped in rubber straps. But works well. No wobble at all. Only plastic are the knobs and the straps that hold the dremel. Just looked, it is a model 210. But old as heck. The base goes up rather than dremel coming down to the board. | |
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| My $50 harbor freight "tabletop" drill press will take my smallest drill bits, and works perfect. Weighs about 50# so it's nowhere near as portable as a dremel though... Lately I've tried using glossy photopaper and it worked good for a while (even made some doublesided boards) - then all of a sudden I can't get the toner to transfer! Even on high heat with lots of pressure..... So I don't know what's going on. | |
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I use the glossy business paper (it is on both side) as well, very easy to iron on and soak off with water.. Hammond Business Gloss paper.. 300 sheets in a pack. I want to get a drill press from HF but I am out of room with the blast booth and 14" band saw, overkill but man can get cut PCBs. | ||
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Are there anyone that has experience with the 220-1 out there? Older models pop up for sale now and then but I am trying not to make the same mistake again. | ||
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In that case, I hold out very little hope for it... Well, now I guess I'd better recommend something better: PZ541 Vertical Drill Stand from minicrafttools.com That is what I bought when my first dremel model 220 turned out to be junk, before they had sent me a new one - it's completely metal, rack and pinion, and it works very well. It's got a big clamp that goes around the main body of the dremel, but it should be able to fit a wider variety of tools this way. it fit my regular 2-speed dremel perfectly. It's also very small compared to the model 220.
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| I like this thing, not for PCBs, but that would be handy as heck. MB592 Versatile Drill Holder $21.95 | |
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Warning about the Chinese Dremel imitation, its collets are NOT the same size as the Dremel but I have made them work anyhow. Other wise it is a fine unit for the money. It comes with a flex drive, in a nice box and slew of grinding, sanding and polishing tools. Last edited by Rolf; 27th December 2006 at 10:42 PM. | ||
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