Thursday, September 11, 2014

De-Vinyl - Day 2



It just bugs me that I came away with disappointing results with de-vinyling yesterday. I stopped by Active Electronics on the way home from work and picked up a few different solder iron tips. I looked for larger chisel tips and knife edge tips. I also decided to up the temperature of my solder iron. Playing between 750 and 800deg. I am now seeing much better results. I have slowed down the pull of the iron across the aluminum to ~1.5sec/inch. If I pull the vinyl back 180 deg back over itself it leaves a very clean edge. Any edges that I didn't melt through can be very quickly rectified with a simple touch of the iron. I'm much more pleased with the results.  Although I must say that there is still at times just a very faint line where the iron has passed over the aluminum. I would say 5% has just a hint of a line. I resolved that this is acceptable and to carry on (although I might just double check with Vans Force)




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