What is Image Etching?
Picture etching, which is also known as chemi etching, chemical etching or picture chemical milling (PCM) is a manufacturing procedure which uses ferric chloride as an etching chemistry to produce detailed and highly exact precision metal parts.
Metal etching provides a very quick turnaround alternate service to other processes such as marking, punching, water jet or laser cutting particularly for extremely fine function complex metal components from 0.0127 mm-- 1.60 mm thick in a lot of metal types.
The metal is cut, cleaned and after that laminated with a blue UV photo-sensitive resist, which is then printed with your preferred CAD artwork style profile.
After printing your design, the metal is then established, which effectively 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 engraving out the profile design, we merely eliminate the blue UV photo-sensitive withstand to Mumetal Etching leave the raw metal parts either loose or tabbed into the larger decoration sheet.
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Metal Etching Advantages include: 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, therefore any design modifications are extremely basic amend and really fast execute and cost effective. We offer TOTALLY FREE photo-tool art work at Qualitetch, once you provide a DXF of your required profile, however many of our competitors charge up to ₤ 100+ for this service.Our image etching process does not acknowledge the complexity of your style for that reason elements with lots of holes such as meshes can be manufactured at no extra cost than an easy shape profile.Tolerances used from +-0.025 mm dependent on product type and thickness.FAST lead-times with parts available within a few days.
What metals do we work with?Photo etching, likewise known as chemical etching or photochemical machining, is an extremely precise, affordable metal machining procedure used to produce complicated components from a large range of metals.
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