Wayne Bensinger
Well-Known Member
Good evening all, wondering if anybody out there in Knifedogland can help me out with a problem I just had. Here's the details. I ordered two stencils from The Boss and could not wait for Friday night to get here to have some time to try them out on some of my older and more recent work. The unit I have is a Monode 400CC solid state power unit.(supposedly a industrial etching unit). So I started by cleaning the blade with Windex and then taping the stencil to the blade, so far so good, or so I thought! I set the etcher to DC and used what I thought was a middle of the road setting and got no results at all after holding the pad on for 60 seconds. I thought I had some etch, but when I rubbed it with my thumb it was appparently just the stencil debris that was fried. This was the 52100 stencil if anyone is wondering about the steel. Tried again with 154CM, same results. I would think that if I had my settings to high that I would fry two stencils, at least I might get some type of permanent mark on either piece of steel, but not the slightest mark! Anything that was on the blade after my attempts just rubbed right off with my thumb, at this point spending $60 on a stamp seams a much better way to mark, if at all. Please help