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Etching Aluminum Siding.

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Etching Aluminum Siding.
Posted by rdgk1se3019 on Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:47 PM

Hi all.

Last weekend I went to my local "Radio Shack" to get a bottle of etchant (Ferric chloride) for some Campbell corrugated siding.

They said corporate told them a year ago that they should stop selling it because someone could make a bomb out of it.

That being said what could be used to do get a rusted and holed through look for corrugated aluminum?

I want to make a fence for a scrap yard on my layout.

Thanks.

Dennis Blank Jr.

CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad

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  • From: Eastern Shore Virginia
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Posted by gandydancer19 on Sunday, January 22, 2012 5:54 PM

Other places still sell it.  Look for Printed Circuit Board Etchant.

Elmer.

The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.

(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.

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Posted by modelmaker51 on Sunday, January 22, 2012 6:14 PM

Micromark has a whole assortmaent of etching kits and solutions:  http://www.micromark.com/plating-and-etching.html

Jay 

C-415 Build: https://imageshack.com/a/tShC/1 

Other builds: https://imageshack.com/my/albums 

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