What is Image Etching?
Image etching, which is also called chemi etching, chemical etching or picture chemical milling (PCM) is a manufacturing procedure which uses ferric chloride as an etching chemistry to produce complex and highly exact precision metal parts.
Metal etching provides a really fast turn-around alternate service to other procedures such as stamping, punching, water jet or laser cutting especially for extremely great feature complex metal parts from 0.0127 mm-- 1.60 mm thick in many metal types.
The metal is cut, cleaned up and after that laminated with a blue UV photo-sensitive withstand, which is then printed with your preferred CAD art work design profile.
After printing your style, the metal is then developed, which successfully removes 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 larger decoration 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 very basic amend and extremely fast execute and cost effective. We provide TOTALLY FREE photo-tool art work at Qualitetch, once you provide a DXF of your required profile, however much of our competitors charge up to ₤ 100+ for this service.Our image etching process does not identify the complexity of your design for that reason components with lots of holes such as meshes can be manufactured at no extra expense 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 wide variety of metals.
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