[Elecraft] Cleaning capacitor goop from PC board

Vic K2VCO vic at rakefet.com
Sun Dec 26 02:04:05 EST 2010


I have a board (not an Elecraft product!) which has several SMD electrolytics that have 
failed, leaking brown, corrosive goop. The board is hard to find and expensive. I am going 
to try to fix it.

Question: how do you clean the brown capacitor goop off the board?  Some of the traces may 
be corroded, but I can't tell without getting this stuff off! And I don't want to damage 
them by scraping.
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Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/


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