Homebrew PCBs

Lemon juice = citric acid
vinegar [Acetic acid] + salt [sodium chloride] =
(HAc +NaCl) ->
	 HCl [hydrochloric acid] + NaAc [Sodium Acetate?]

Either way they are acid bath cleaners - the HCl would be 
the nastier of the two.

Norm

newphreak_16@... wrote:
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> Hi there
> Ive never tried Lemon Juice however i remember i think from Mr. 
> Wizard, (remember him?) a good way to clean copper.
> Take some white vinegar, (red wine vinegar also works) and mix in 
> some table salt.
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> This is your copper cleaner.  Drop your board into a shallow tray 
> with some of this stuff and watch the tarnish vanish. Rinse well with 
> water.  Get it all off or it will just start to corrode later.
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> This removes tarnish, but won't pollish, A good pencil eraser may be 
> used to burnish the copper traces.
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> A little thing to remember, Being vinegar and salt, one would assume 
> that this is a safe substance, and it is... BUT once you use it to 
> clean copper, it becomes poison.  I just pour some in a tray or on a 
> paper towel and discard when im done, i never reuse.   
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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBs 
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