Make sure you are removing any bubbles when first ironing the PnP onto the enclosure. The black parts where there is toner will start to stick to the enclosure pretty quickly, so it’s best to push the air bubbles to any blue parts of the transfer, or ideally out from under the transfer entirely.

As to your second problem, it all depends on how long you exposed, what temperature, and the detail of the transfer. If you have fine detail, you’ll want to expose for short amounts of time, rinse, and repeat. Remember, if the acid bath is warm enough (for instance, if you’re doing outside on a summer day), it will become more active, and therefore less controllable. If you find you’re still losing too much detail, try using enamel paint (or even nail polish) to thicken up the mask in parts you find are being destroyed.

Hope that helps you out in some way. Best of luck!

-Preston

I took “the step” and ordered the stuff that is required for a PNP to etch-whatever. Great tutorial on that one by the way.

I’ve got two issues at this point though:
1: my PNP wont “do the job” on the whole surface, i was anal with the ironing but still it gave me semi-crap resuts – please explain this part of the tutorial in greater detail….
2: My etching got pretty f’d up. My guess that the reasons of failiure is
a) to exposed to the acid mix.
b) Bad P’N'P-mask (see above)

Please get back to me.
Epic DIY Love,
Chrstian from Sweden