Circuit Boards

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Anyone have any experience in printing circuit boards?

I'm pretty deep into electronicals and tired of breadboards and figure since this
whole screen printing thing is my day job anyways I might as well delve into it.
Hobby only, I'm not looking to get into anything else as a profession.

[Frog]

No help here but I just got the thought wouldn't it be cool if there was a good conductive, and solderable material that we could cad cat?


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I'd imagine it would be hell on cutter blades!

[RICK STEFANICK]

I used to do them for Microwave panels. Ran them on a progress cylylnder press using conductive ink . I cant be much help other than the ink is like 4k a gallon

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I used to do them for Microwave panels. Ran them on a progress cylylnder press using conductive ink . I cant be much help other than the ink is like 4k a gallon

Haha yeah that would be printing the conductive stuff directly. What I'm looking at is printing an etch resist
on copper clad boards, etching, then removing the resist.

Apparently for small runs any lacquer ink will do, and can be removed with xylene after etching.
Same lacquer ink can be used to print component guides/labels on the board once complete.

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[RICK STEFANICK]

I used to do them for Microwave panels. Ran them on a progress cylylnder press using conductive ink . I cant be much help other than the ink is like 4k a gallon

Haha yeah that would be printing the conductive stuff directly. What I'm looking at is printing an etch resist
on copper clad boards, etching, then removing the resist.

Apparently for small runs any lacquer ink will do, and can be removed with xylene after etching.
Same lacquer ink can be used to print component guides/labels on the board once complete.

Auto-smoker Ver 0.01 coming right up.

I know that terminology with the etch resist and I know they did that also in this etching machine. Thats all I got  lol

[inkman996]

You can use an online service for pennies and custom make your own PCB's. Places like https://www.pcbway.com does this. There is plenty of free software out there for desinging your own PCB for your specific needs then have a 3 party make it for you.