kitchen chemistry. not the edible kind.

[rmd]

i've been intruiged for a while with doing some home etching stuff. (i made some circuit boards years ago, but nothing for close to 15 years.) i_leonardo and the duck did some etching the other night, both with acid and electrically based etching. and that was fun.

so i picked up some ferric chloride at youdoit and experimented with taking a transparency printed thru the laser printer and ironing it onto the copper board. (the copper board was some roof flashing from the orange box)

it didn't come out great, but parts of it were pretty good. the resist wasn't as resistant as i had hoped in spots.

there are pictures.

parts that came out well:
http://flickr.com/photos/rmd1023/3107125835/in/set-72157611252324836/

and parts that didn't come out so well:
http://flickr.com/photos/rmd1023/3107915600/in/set-72157611252324836/
http://flickr.com/photos/rmd1023/3107128769/in/set-72157611252324836/

Comments

[blipvert.livejournal.com]

Not bad though, even the ones that didn't come out as nice.

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

Hey! If you want to do some more of this I've got a sample pack of Press-n-peel (http://www.techniks.com/) that I bought years back and never used. You're welcome to it...

[marith.livejournal.com]

That's very cool!

[muffyjo]

Hey, that's pretty cool stuff! I'd be very curious on how that's done, exactly.

[lukehankins.livejournal.com]

Er, isn't your sweetie already living with you? You don't need to go through all this effort just to lure her upstairs with the promise of seeing your etchings...