Electronics Forum | Wed Sep 05 14:53:45 EDT 2001 | Jeff Meier
We have customers that are requiring no flux residue left on boards after soldering of non-water washable parts. We currently use Multicore Crystal 502 No-Clean to solder parts that are not washable. Has anyone come up with a good way to remove this
Electronics Forum | Wed Jun 04 13:40:41 EDT 2003 | caldon
You may have answered your own question. CHEMISTRY, CHEMISTRY, CHEMISTRY depending on what type and whos product will work differently for each machine and Board geometry. I would ask Kyzen, Pertoferm, Zestron, and Aqueous Tech (all Chemistry manuf
Electronics Forum | Wed Dec 03 03:11:09 EST 2003 | ADAM
tHANKS FOR THE RESPONSE GUYS. I'll be checking out those websites during the day Cal. With regards to youR response Daniel. All our soldering materials are Alphametal products and are RMA based. As much as we would like to use ultrasonics on all our
Electronics Forum | Mon Feb 14 09:22:13 EST 2005 | vortex
Recently I have started refurbing my companies extremely neglected Hollis TDL wave solder machine. After doing a general cleaning, de-fluxing, and de-greasing I have all the mechanical components back in working order. What i am left with is the elec
Electronics Forum | Thu Jan 19 06:39:56 EST 2006 | dougs
It's been a few years since i worked on a CP machine but your st17 & 19 errors are probably down to grease in the clutches at the top of the shafts, if too much grease is put onto the turret gear during maintenance it tends to spray into these clutch
Electronics Forum | Tue Jan 26 09:33:24 EST 2010 | smt_guy
Hi, I have a copper plate that we received from supplier with oils and some sort of stains. We tried most of the general type of degreasers by soaking but didn't work until we tried a Floor Stripper from Ace and it does make the copper clean and shi
Electronics Forum | Tue Mar 09 14:53:16 EST 2010 | davef
Resistivity Of Solvent Extract [ROSE] is a bulk ion contamination [BIC] test method. It should thought of as a process control tool used to assess ionic contaminants. Don't consider it an acceptable tool for establishing 'GO-NOGO' limits. The stan
Electronics Forum | Fri Jun 24 15:04:22 EDT 2011 | kahrpr
I am going to open the flood gates of comments. The purpose of no clean is so you do not have to clean it. Yes I am aware of no cleans that you can clean. If you need to clean the boards use a water soluble paste. If you do not clean, no clean prop
Electronics Forum | Mon Aug 22 13:50:21 EDT 2011 | ryanr
I am looking for a methods to clean boards built with a "No-Clean" flux but the boards have non-hermetically sealed parts on them, therefore they cannot be exposed to an semi-aqueous process (what I typically use). These boards will be built in large
Electronics Forum | Fri Dec 18 12:45:23 EST 2015 | deanm
Using a vapor degreaser with a solvent such as Vertrel, Novec, Techspray 1655, Solstice, etc. may work for you but solvents can attack certain plastics. Should be fine for SMT though. This is assuming you are using a no-clean (RMA) type flux, not wat
