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In my neck of the world I couldn't find a laminator for a reasonable price, so I adapted the fusor from a scrapped LJ-III printer. It's right ugly and I didn't make the least effort to pretty it up. Using a PIC I have full control of both speed and temperature. After some experimentation I found that a good speed is about 1 cm/s, passing the board about six times at varied angles. I retained the thermistor and control the temperature with the PIC's comparator. This seems to be a bit critical, too cold and you don't get good adherence. Too hot and the toner gets too liquid and smears. For paper I use the glossy supermarket fliers. They're too flimsy to pass through the printer on their own, so I fold down a cm or so at the top of a sheet of A4 paper and insert the flier in the fold. The acetone melt is a good trick. Put some marbles in a plastic container, pour in some acetone, place the board toner side up on the marbles and close the lid. Yngve.
On Monday, July 2, 2018, 5:20:49 PM GMT-3, Rob via Groups.Io <roomberg@...> wrote:
This PANTUM hack was on my radar when I was
experimenting with hacking my laminator. Right about the time that I melted the nylon gear in the laminator I stumbled onto both...the HOTCAKES heavy metal press method....? right after I ordered the PANTUM printer. But I never pursued the PANTUM because the HOTCAKES method gave repeatable results. I definitely will check out the acetone vapor melt step. Thank you. ? On 07/02/2018 03:19 PM, Mark Lerman
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