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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] How are people removing flux?

2006-02-07 by Alan King

If someone's just absolutely needing a nearly perfectly clean board, 
there is another way.  Get some fluxless solder and a good water 
soluable flux as used for wave soldering.  Makes clean up a breeze, we 
just ran everything through an old dishwasher..  Still have a bottle on 
hand too, there are times where the extra flux comes in handy, and for 
being water clean the stuff I have is great..  I've seen at least a few 
very bad water clean fluxes too, so might want to do a little reading on 
ease of use before deciding on what to get, don't remember the name of 
this stuff off hand, it's been a long time in an unmarked bottle..

  A little more trouble to solder with etc, but if you really need to 
make more than a few very clean boards then the ease of cleaning could 
more than make up for it..

Alan

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