[sdiy] Board Cleaning, Was: Super S/H doc

[MTG]

What are people using to clean boards with these days?  I've been using 
electronic grade isopropyl alcohol on boards I repair (solder is 
old-school Kester 245 SN63/PB37) and it sure takes a lot of IPA and 
patience to get a board clean. Same if you use it on "new construction".

Then I read someone is using MEK, but have never tried that:
http://bustedgear.com/repair_IC_socket_install_2.htm

Now Ian mentions ethanol.

I tried the MG Chemicals Flux Remover and I thought that was worse (more 
wasteful and expensive) than IPA. And sometimes left a white residue. 
It's mainly flux cleaning I'm after.

GB

On 7/13/2015 12:11 PM, Ian Fritz wrote:
> As far as measuring leakage at these extremely low levels, it was
> important to wire the hi-Z node in the air and to carefully clean around
> this area with electronic-grade ethanol followed by ample drying time.