Acetone is very effective on flux but can dissolve some plastics so a little risky/aggressive.
Just use more IPA after brushing, get soak piece of cotton with IPA and...voila!What are you guys using for flux removal from a PCB
Ive got most of it off with IPA and a stiff plastic brush, but it still feels a bit tacky
Anyone tried detergent and water?, no capacitors fitted at present only resistors diodes and transistors
Alan
What are you guys using for flux removal from a PCB
Ive got most of it off with IPA and a stiff plastic brush, but it still feels a bit tacky
Anyone tried detergent and water?, no capacitors fitted at present only resistors diodes and transistors
Alan
All that information appears in safety data sheet .pdf further down the product page. Do you think that helps make it more legal?
Yes! This is fundamentally true of all solvent based cleaning processes.I use IPA. It usually takes 2 or 3 passes and it's important to wipe as much of the "solution" off the board before it dries. In effect this waters (IPAs) down the flux each time.
Looks to be a water/alcohol mix with some surfactant, so basically record cleaning solution. I find straight IPA then actually soak up the resulting IPA with a paper cloth gets things to a pretty good state. Saying that, the sort of crud you discover under any surface mount components even having doused with IPA and scrubbed does make me wonder whether i'm really just pushing stuff around more than i'd like. But the board looks ace...For info,
Just had a mail from LesW and he says he uses Safewash Super followed by a warm water rinse
Alan