What is Image Etching?
Picture etching, which is also known as chemi etching, chemical etching or image chemical milling (PCM) is a production procedure which uses ferric chloride as an etching chemistry to produce intricate and extremely exact precision metal components.
Metal etching offers a really quick turn-around alternate solution to other processes such as marking, punching, water jet or laser cutting particularly for very great function complex metal elements from 0.0127 mm-- 1.60 mm thick in many metal types.
The metal is cut, cleaned and then laminated with a blue UV photo-sensitive resist, which is then printed with your wanted 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 simply get rid of the blue UV photo-sensitive withstand to leave the raw metal parts either loose or tabbed into the larger fretwork sheet.
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Metal Etching Benefits include: Image etching is an entirely burr totally free and trouble-free process with no mechanical force or heat being applied to the metal parts during production.
Art work is in CAD format and transferred to an acetate photo-tool, for that reason any style modifications are very simple modify and really quick implement and cost effective. We provide COMPLIMENTARY photo-tool art work at Qualitetch, when you supply a DXF of your needed profile, however a lot of our competitors charge up to ₤ 100+ for this service.Our image etching procedure does not recognise the intricacy of your style therefore components with lots of holes such as meshes can be produced at no additional expense than a basic shape profile.Tolerances Mumetal Etching provided from +-0.025 mm dependent on product type and thickness.FAST lead-times with parts offered within a few days.
What metals do we work with?Photo etching, likewise called chemical etching or photochemical machining, is a highly precise, cost-efficient metal machining process utilized to produce complicated components from a wide range of metals.
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