mjgraham
Well-known member
HI, first off I just want to thank everyone that has shared their knowledge on here, for with out it I would have never known that this was even able to be done at home. I first started with 3 cards from and old mainframe computer they had gold pads along both sides that were about 8mm square, maybe 75 per board. The person that gave them to me said he had just thrown a lot of them away not too much earlier of course but at any rate here we go. They did not have any solder mask so the traces were all solder coated, after I just the fingers off did a day long HCl soak then did the AP then HCl/Cl then the normal routine from there. But I have some pictures to show the way. Turns out if I really did a good job that person that gave me the boards was throwing about $10 per board away , go figure. I think the finger stock was about 70g starting. I hope this is not too many photos, but sometimes I get carried away. Like I said thanks to everyone, my first little test run did not go so well but I learned a lot and the second time it went much better!
HCl soak
All collected foils dry weight was 0.8g
All gone
Dry Weight
Melting Dish
Melted weight
Up close
I think it looks pretty good but I am open for comments.
Thanks
Jarrid
I think it looks pretty good but I am open for comments.
Thanks
Jarrid