Electronics Forum: cleaning water soluble flux (Page 3 of 93)

Re: no-clean vs. water soluble

Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 13 20:37:56 EDT 2000 | Dave F

Awww Stevo, just chill. I think of NC as the process engineers' full employment material. Water solubles are for wimps!!! Har har har

Re: no-clean vs. water soluble

Electronics Forum | Thu Sep 14 19:44:25 EDT 2000 | Brian W.

I cannot give references to papers, etc, but I can tell you from experience that High Impedance circuits and High Power RF circuits are not something to try no-clean on. For an aerospace customer, I had a circuit that any residue left between two pa

Re: water soluble solder mask

Electronics Forum | Thu Oct 14 06:00:49 EDT 1999 | Graham Naisbitt

The latex should not influence your closed-loop filtration - unless of course it falls off during cleaning. The issue would be with water soluble materials. As Dave (hi Dave) said, the clay based version of these will clog/blind/knacker your carbon

Re: water soluble solder mask

Electronics Forum | Wed Oct 13 12:54:44 EDT 1999 | Dave F

Mikeh: You can't let that stuff get to your carbon bed. Literally, you can watch your bed die. The clay coats the carbon, entombing it. I've heard talk of using a RO filter as a front-end buffer to the recycling system, but know of no one who has

flux on PCB's after cleaning

Electronics Forum | Fri Jul 23 14:41:41 EDT 2004 | Steve Stach

Dear JSK, It sounds like the root causes of your problem are two fold. First, excessive heat will polymerize the abietic acid found in rosin forming neo-abietic diamers and polymers which are much less soluble than the parent monomer. There are

Water soluble No-clean Flux ?

Electronics Forum | Wed Jan 12 13:42:08 EST 2000 | Tim A.

Is it possible to have a no-clean flux that could be removed with water. I would like to use a single flux at wave solder that could satisfy both no-clean and water soluble customers, within a contract manufacturing environment. Thanks, Tim A.

Mixing No-clean and water soluble processes

Electronics Forum | Tue Feb 23 12:56:03 EST 2010 | vleasher

Is there any harm in washing SMT soldered with NoClean paste? The PCA has some large thru-hole connectors that we would prefer to do as water soluble on out selective solder but the SMT consists of LGA's and other low parts that we would not be able

Mixing No-clean and water soluble processes

Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 24 07:28:40 EST 2010 | drt

Agree with what has been said so far. Check with your end customer and make sure the white haze appearance of the board will be acceptable. You will never get the board to look like it did before you started. It may be clean but it won't look like t

Mixing No-clean and water soluble processes

Electronics Forum | Thu Feb 25 03:37:25 EST 2010 | xps

Sorry, but I don't know this brand. Anyway pay attention, because if the chemistry is resin based, is difficult to clean and the residuals may be hygroscopic. So, I only can suggest you to read the data sheet and follow the instructions by the solder

Mixing No-clean and water soluble processes

Electronics Forum | Wed Feb 24 10:23:04 EST 2010 | xps

60° C). Moreover (by IPC standard)... "White residues resulting from no-clean or other processes are acceptable provided the residues from chemistries used have been qualified and documented as benign...". So, use an EDX or IC analysis in order to


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