Kentucky Breakfast

Founders Brewing Company’s Kentucky Breakfast Bourbon Aged Stout

Yes, tonight I opened my single bottle of Founders Brewing Company’s Kentucky Breakfast Bourbon Aged Stout. It’s just one of those nights…

Also, I managed to successfully etch and tin plate the double-sided PCB for the Casio SK-1 MIDI modification. I’m in the processing of ordering the parts for it now.

The etching seems good, but I did learn something. Hopefully this something won’t cause me problems down the line. It seems that one shouldn’t put the etched copper-clad PCB into the tinning bath until it is warm enough to dissolve all the precipitated stuffs. The solids setting against the copper/tin will leave a whitish discoloration, which may or may not be good for the board. Fortunately there doesn’t seem to be any of this on the pads, and only in a couple spots on the traces, so it should be fine.

It wasn’t a problem on the one affected pad on the FatMan’s Subharmonic Generator, so hopefully it won’t be a problem here. It’s not like the copper isn’t still intact beneath.

Well, back to ordering parts and figuring out exactly which Intel 80C31 I need.