[sdiy] Favourite flux cleaning ritual?

[Ingo Debus]

Am 12.09.2011 um 16:41 schrieb Tom Wiltshire:

> Back when I worked in the industry, we used to use a spray can product that was brilliant. It'd shift anything with only a few squirts. This was right about the time everyone started getting worried about CFCs and such like, and we had to change to a greener alternative.

Was the CFC really the solvent itself, or was it just the stuff that drove the solvent out of the can? As far as I know, back in the day virtually any spray can product used CFC as propellant.

> Unfortunately, it wasn't anywhere near as good, and you finish up using the whole can

Like René, usually I don't remove (resin) flux residue at all. But if one really wants to get the flux off, Kontakt PCC (in Germany it's called Kontakt LR) from CRC/Kontakt Chemie works quite well. It comes with a little brush attached to the nozzle, and you certainly don't need a whole can to clean a board.

Like a friend of mine used to say, a good solvent just has to bad for the health. Otherwise it can't be a good solvent...

Ingo