Electrolube [sdiy] solvents/cleaners for flux

[Cynthia Webster]

on 8/13/03 9:08 PM, john mahoney at jmahoney at gate.net wrote:

> Cynthia wrote:
>> ... (I just cannot ever seem to get used to rinsing a whole circuit
>> board under water! It feels so weird! )
> 
> Relax! I once toured an MCI * plant where they made high-end mixing consoles
> and such. After boards were run through the wave solderer, they were washed
> in dishwashers -- ordinary, household dishwashers. A friend of mine worked
> there (years later), so I can ask him what kind of cleaner they used, but it
> may well have been dishwashing detergent.
> 
> Here's a PBC cleaning product page that refers to dishwashers:
> http://www.electrolube.com/product/cleaning.asp

Thanks John this is a whole education in flux removal at this link!

Clicking on the word Aqueous at the very bottom reveals a wide range of
water based cleaning products...


> --
> john
> 
> 
> *  MCI was later sucked into Sony Pro Audio, apparently to its detriment.
> The Fort Lauderdale plant changed hands long ago. I liked the wave solderer,
> but I loved the real-time full spectrum analyzer demo.
>