[Elecraft] Cleaning solder flux

Bob McGraw rmcgraw at benlomand.net
Mon Jan 3 11:49:27 EST 2022


Sure......at the place I worked we ran all the populated boards after 
wave solder through a commercial dishwasher with hot water. The flux was 
a petroleum based product as I recall.

73

Bob, K4TAX


On 1/2/2022 7:43 PM, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
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> From: Jim Bruce<jimw3fa at gmail.com>
> To:bill at wjschmidt.com
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> In all of the places I worked beginning with the Air Force we used
> isopropyl alcohol to remove flux from repairs on boards with the exception
> of one. At I believe General Radio(GenRad) in Rockville, Md we used banana
> oil for flux removal.
>
> Has anyone else used something other than alcohol??



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