{"id":1038,"date":"2012-07-08T17:05:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T00:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2012-07-08T17:05:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T00:05:50","slug":"highlighting-etching-on-dark-laser-cut-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/08\/highlighting-etching-on-dark-laser-cut-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlighting Etching on Dark Laser Cut Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/white-markings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1040\" title=\"white-markings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/white-markings-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"highlighted laser etching\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/white-markings-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/white-markings.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>With a lot of people ordering <noindex><a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Raspberry Pi case\" href=\"http:\/\/builttospecstore.storenvy.com\/products\/404262-raspberry-pi-enclosure-kit\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi enclosures<\/a><\/noindex> from me, I decided to revisit trying to color etching on darker plastics. I found that cheap correction fluid works great! You'll want to make sure it's pretty thin so it wicks into the etching nicely. Add a nice thin layer over the etched areas of your parts and let it dry:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fluid-step1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1041\" title=\"fluid-step1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fluid-step1-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"Adding color to dark laser etched parts\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fluid-step1-287x300.jpg 287w, http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fluid-step1.jpg 983w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After letting it dry use a paper towel or a nice non-abrasive cloth and rub off the excess dried marking fluid to reveal the crisp text and graphics underneath:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fluid-step2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1039\" title=\"fluid-step2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fluid-step2-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fluid-step2-265x300.jpg 265w, http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/fluid-step2.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a lot of people ordering Raspberry Pi enclosures from me, I decided to revisit trying to color etching on darker plastics. I found that cheap correction fluid works great! You'll want to make sure it's pretty thin so it wicks into the etching nicely. Add a nice thin layer over the etched areas of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.built-to-spec.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}