Serenity - August 28 2006

Serenity - August 28 2006

Thanks to a fellow modeller I have been encouraged to try my hand at photo etching again. I tried it a long time ago with terrible results. Now with some new help a lot of the uncertainty the first time has been eliminated. First off I went to www.pulsar.gs. They have a starter kit that will speed things up. In this kits are several items. One is the laminator above. Now there is nothing really special about the laminator that works for this system. You should be able to get one at a half decent price. This was cost around $59US

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Since this kit was to prototype PC board I did not need that stuff. I asked them to replace the blank circuit boards and the white TRF paper with the Green TF paper. I am told the white stuff is not as good as the green stuff

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Artwork is done in a graphics program. This is then laser printed on white paper. This shows me where it will print. I then take the TTS paper and cut it into small approx 4in x 4in squares. This is done to save the paper. I tape this to the original printed copy and run it through the printer again so it prints on the TTS paper.

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Now to cut a brass sheet to fit the printout

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Brass description

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For a better seal I used the above cleaner I had laying around. This will clean off any grease from the fingers and any thing else that may prevent the TTS from transferring over completely

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