What is Photo Etching?
Photo etching, which is likewise referred to as chemi etching, chemical etching or image chemical milling (PCM) is a production process which utilizes ferric chloride as an etching chemistry to produce intricate and extremely precise accuracy metal parts.
Metal etching uses a really quick turn-around alternate service to other procedures such as stamping, punching, water jet or laser cutting particularly for very fine function complex metal parts from 0.0127 mm-- 1.60 mm thick in the majority of metal types.
The metal is cut, cleaned up and after that laminated with a blue UV photo-sensitive resist, which is then printed with your desired CAD art work design profile.
After printing your style, the metal is then established, which efficiently washes away any unexposed photo-resist from the print procedure, leaving a raw metal profile track line for the etchant chemistry to etch through the metal.
After engraving out the profile design, we merely remove the blue UV photo-sensitive withstand to leave the raw metal parts either loose or tabbed into the bigger fretwork sheet.
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Metal Etching Benefits consist of: Picture etching is an entirely burr totally free and worry-free process without any mechanical force or heat being applied to the metal parts during production.
Art work is in CAD format and moved to an acetate photo-tool, for that reason any design modifications are extremely easy amend and really fast carry out and cost effective. We offer TOTALLY FREE photo-tool artwork at Qualitetch, when you supply a DXF of your needed profile, however a lot of our rivals charge up to ₤ 100+ for this service.Our photo etching procedure does not recognise the complexity of your style therefore parts with many holes such as meshes can be produced at no extra cost than a basic shape profile.Tolerances offered from +-0.025 mm based on material type and thickness.FAST lead-times with parts readily available within a few days.
What metals do we work with?Photo etching, also called chemical etching or photochemical machining, is a highly accurate, cost-effective metal machining process utilized to produce complex elements from a wide range of metals.
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