My wife got a cricut for Christmas and I took the opportunity to update my old zippo lighter. She cut out a stencil for me and I used a old 12volt toy charger and a salt water solution to etch through the coating down to the brass
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Took an old 12 volt charger that was laying around the garage from one of my kids old ride on toys cut the end off put alligator clips on the both wires.
Make a salt water solution
ground the positive to the work piece
Dip a q-tip into the solution and clip the negative to the q-tip. Make sure it is contacting the solution and press over the stencil. You will see the q-tip yellow as the reaction occurs. It will take some time make sure you are consistent on pressure and time along the work piece.
This is the first I have done and definitely learned a lot. Some good you tube videos out there
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Originally posted by Austin View PostTook an old 12 volt charger that was laying around the garage from one of my kids old ride on toys cut the end off put alligator clips on the both wires.
Make a salt water solution
ground the positive to the work piece
Dip a q-tip into the solution and clip the negative to the q-tip. Make sure it is contacting the solution and press over the stencil. You will see the q-tip yellow as the reaction occurs. It will take some time make sure you are consistent on pressure and time along the work piece.
This is the first I have done and definitely learned a lot. Some good you tube videos out there
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