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- From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)
- Subject: Re: Sources for UV lightbulbs
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.042628.4746@athena.cs.uga.edu>
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- Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens
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- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 04:26:28 GMT
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- In article <BxKrnB.JnM@acsu.buffalo.edu> v064mcqs@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NEIL GANDLER) writes:
- >
- > I have been working with small scale pc board making and hate the direct etch
- >and photocopy toner iron on methods. They just are a waste of time and money.
- >I have been trying photo etching. For a while I have been using a plan light
- >to expose the board. It does not do a good enough job and exposure
- >time takes almost 40 minutes. I am looking for a UV lightbulb that would
- >screw into a standard socket. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- You could try a photoflood bulb from a camera store. They are very bright
- (and even fairly bright in the UV) because they run at a very high temper-
- ature. They're cheap.
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