photoetching

If you want your own supplers, Radio Shack sells Ferric Chloride etchant. Other Electronic suppliers might also carry it or other types of etchants.

As far as photoresist goes, I used to get mine from Future/Active Electronics. They used to have a local store (but they closed it). But that is a Canadian company and they still sell mail order or over the Net.

I also got some good photoresist spray from Electrolube in England. Last time I've ordered, they has a distributor on the US.

Do some Google searches and I'm sure that you'll come up with lots of good info.

Peteski

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I tried the links. The last one did not work. The description on the protrain website is great. But like mentioned above the suppies are quite a lot and for a beginner maybe to much. Thanks guys.

Ray Haddad wrote:

Five years ago I etched my own parts from brass and nickel silver using dry film resist. But sometimes I had severe problems; as an example I couldn't get the laminating whith dry film resist to work in the winter time, perhaps because the air was too dry.

So I had a choice: I could upgrade my equipment as Randy Gordon-Gilmore describes, or I could get my etchings done out-of-house. As the whole process of preparing the sheets, lamination, exposure, development and etching is rather time-consuming, I chose the latter approach which I have not regretted.

I use Photo Etch Consultants Ltd in England at