What is Photo Etching?
Picture etching, which is also known as chemi etching, chemical etching or image chemical milling (PCM) is a production process which uses ferric chloride as an etching chemistry to produce detailed and extremely accurate 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 fine feature complex metal parts from 0.0127 mm-- 1.60 mm thick in a lot of metal types.
The metal is cut, cleaned up and then laminated with a blue UV photo-sensitive withstand, which is then printed with your wanted CAD art work design profile.
After printing your design, the metal is then established, which efficiently removes any unexposed photo-resist from the print process, leaving a raw metal profile track line for the etchant chemistry to etch through the metal.
After etching out the profile style, we just remove the blue UV photo-sensitive withstand to leave the raw metal parts either loose or tabbed into the bigger decoration sheet.
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Metal Etching Advantages include: Image etching is a completely burr complimentary and hassle-free procedure with no mechanical force or heat being applied to the Industrial Etching metal parts throughout production.
Artwork remains in CAD format and moved to an acetate photo-tool, therefore any style changes are really simple change and very quick implement and cost effective. We offer COMPLIMENTARY photo-tool artwork at Qualitetch, once you provide a DXF of your required profile, but many of our rivals charge up to ₤ 100+ for this service.Our picture etching process does not acknowledge the complexity of your design for that reason elements with many holes such as meshes can be made at no additional cost than a basic shape profile.Tolerances provided from +-0.025 mm depending on material type and thickness.FAST lead-times with parts readily available within a few days.
What metals do we work with?Photo etching, likewise known as chemical etching or photochemical machining, is a highly exact, affordable metal machining procedure used to produce complicated parts from a wide variety of metals.
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