ferric Archives - G00 https://g00.eu/tag/ferric/ Rapid Prototyping Wed, 02 Nov 2016 19:48:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://g00.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-text4185-150x150.png ferric Archives - G00 https://g00.eu/tag/ferric/ 32 32 Etching Aluminium with Ferric Chloride https://g00.eu/2016/11/02/etching-aluminium-with-ferric-chloride/ https://g00.eu/2016/11/02/etching-aluminium-with-ferric-chloride/#respond Tue, 01 Nov 2016 21:04:30 +0000 http://g00.eu/?p=214 Had to make a dog tag. Only had aluminium available, and, as it turns out, Dry Moly lube marking doesn’t work at all on aluminium. Having no other idea, I just painted the dog-tag matte black with some spray paint, then laser etched the design off, then applied some Ferric

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]]> Had to make a dog tag. Only had aluminium available, and, as it turns out, Dry Moly lube marking doesn’t work at all on aluminium. Having no other idea, I just painted the dog-tag matte black with some spray paint, then laser etched the design off, then applied some Ferric Chloride (used for making printed circuit boards) with a syringe. Left it there bubbling for about half a minute (until the chloride turns transparent/silver as opposed to the original yellow), then cleaned it off. Awesome results:

Edit: Bonus Ferric Chloride bubbling GIF:

bubbling

 

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