[sdiy] Favourite flux cleaning ritual?

[Tom Wiltshire]

On 12 Sep 2011, at 17:27, Ingo Debus wrote:

> Am 12.09.2011 um 16:41 schrieb Tom Wiltshire:
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>> 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.
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> 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.

Like you say, the CFC stuff was probably only propellant. The solvent was some probably some hideous VOC stuff. Shame I can't remember its name or I could check.

> 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...

The logic is impeccable - if it can't dissolve human flesh, it's not a solvent worth bothering with!! ;)

Tom