Saturday, April 03, 2010
Hot copper and PLA
Acting on a suggestion from Vik, I have found that PLA can be extruded onto copper clad board and, if it is hot enough, it sticks very well. I have to flex the board to remove it. 55°C is too cold but 130°C works well. I haven't tried anything in between yet.
Assuming PLA will resist PCB etchant, this could be a way of making PCB's without a laser printer, albeit quite low resolution. With 0.3mm filament squashed to 0.24mm a single line would be 0.36mm wide, which is 14 thou.
It also seems like a good bed material for making PLA objects on.
More details here: hydraraptor.blogspot.com/2010/04/cu-pla
Assuming PLA will resist PCB etchant, this could be a way of making PCB's without a laser printer, albeit quite low resolution. With 0.3mm filament squashed to 0.24mm a single line would be 0.36mm wide, which is 14 thou.
It also seems like a good bed material for making PLA objects on.
More details here: hydraraptor.blogspot.com/2010/04/cu-pla
Labels: copper, heated bed, pcb, pla
