Now we’ll prepare the glass fiber. We are going to cut it a bit bigger
than our design, leaving a small margin. We cut the page design, where
the “Top” parts were in normal vision. We attach the page to the glass
fiber with a little bit of sellotape. We choose two pads which are
situated at both extremes of the design, one that is at the upper part
and the other one at the other extreme end, but in the lower part.
We make a hole with a hand drill in the mentioned pads. The hole should be 0.8
mm wide.
We have to look carefully at the pads we have chosen, since now we
have to make a small hole with a pin in the photograph paper, on the
page which coincides with “Top” mirrored part and with the “Bottom”
part.
We now leave a photograph paper with design and we take a kitchen
towel and a solvent. We remove the page which was attached to the glass
fiber and we rub the copper with the kitchen towel dipped into the
solvent, so that it becomes shiny on both sides.
Once we have done this, we mustn’t touch the copper with our
finger, and that is why we’ll take the board by the edges. If we touch
it the toner won’t be printed later on the board.
Now we have to fit the little holes we had made in the photograph
paper onto the hole made by the hand drill. We’ll attach it with the
sellotape.
Ok, so far, so good. Now we take an object against which men and women likewise bear a grudge, our beloved iron.
We adjust it on the half of the scale, marked as “cotton”. And, of
course, without vapour. We wait until it’s hot and we start pressing a
paper which covers our glass fiber with the iron.
It goes without saying that you should put another cloth between
the glass fiber and the table. We continue ironing and we alternately
press it strongly with a cloth. We repeat the process on the other
side.
We should spare 10 minutes on each side, ironing and pressing with
a cloth. Immediately after this, while the glass fiber is still very
hot, we place it in a recipient filled with cold water and we leave it
there for 10 minutes. It’s a mistake if you leave the copper to cool
it; it’s supposed to be placed in the cold water while it’s still very
hot.
After 10 minutes we remove the paper from the copper very slowly. If we
have done it properly, the paper should come of easily.
