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Re: [Homebrew_PCBs] Isopropyl Alcohol 90%

2006-11-28 by Stefan Trethan

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:06:09 +0100, AnaLog Services, Inc.  
<wireline@...> wrote:

> Either is aggressive against polystyrene.  For instance, those white foam
> expanded polystyrene cups cannot survive PGA (as if anybody could stand  
> to
> drink it straight).
> I have gotten away from the denatured stuff due to the stink.  I buy  
> bottles
> of PGA (Everclear) and use it for flux cleaning.  I pay the outrageously
> high tax on it that way, but I use so little, it is much easier to do  
> that
> than to buy it from a chemical supplier.
> Syd


Then you must have different polystyrene than we have. Ethanol does  
nothing to mine.

ST

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