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- From: pvr@wang.com ()
- Subject: Re: TEC-200 film
- Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:33:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <BxK0B5.Hs2@wang.com>
- References: <1992Nov10.014707.29328@Princeton.EDU>
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- ajackson@ernie.Princeton.EDU (Andrew William Jackson) writes:
-
- >TEC-200 film
-
- >Has anyone tried this stuff? Supposedly you photocopy your
- >PCB pattern onto it with a normal photocopier and then iron
- >it onto a blank copper board, peel off the plastic substrate
- >leaving the pattern behind - then you etch it. Sounds like
- >a great way to make boards without the hassle of using photo
- >resist.
-
- Yes I have. It worked as advertised. The problem
- is in ironing it to the circuit board. The trace pattern
- has a tendency to mush as it is pressed onto the board. This
- was not too much of a problem on boards that had wide traces
- that were widely spaced. On boards with fine traces, 12 mil
- traces on 25 mil centers, it was very hard to control.
-
- I had no problem with the film not releasing the
- toner as some people have reported. I did sand the board
- with #320 sand paper. I used a tight circular sanding pattern
- to not have any directional adhesion bias.
-
- Interestingly, the copies produced in my Laser Jet III
- were not all that dense. I thought that is would be too porous
- to be an effective resist. The mushing effect caused the
- toner particles to mush together producing a solid trace as well
- as a wider trace.
-
- If the film could be pressed onto the board with
- a very tightly controlled pressure at the correct temperature
- then this process would probably work well. An iron is
- just too crude an instrument.
-
-
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- >>>>>>>>>>>> Peter Reilley ..... pvr@wiis.wang.com ..... KA1LAT <<<<<<<<<<<<<
- Well, that about says it.
-