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Default Using soldre flux on electronics?

"badgolferman" wrote in
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mm, 2/26/2007,1:36:30 PM, wrote:


So should I be cleaning solder conections I make now? With what?


Purest alcohol you can find.


90% isopropyl from the drug store works fine,and is inexpensive.
Apply with a Q-tip,it absorbs the dissolved flux/alk from the work.

some rosin-core solders are "no-clean",some are water-cleanable.

(21 yrs at Tektronix.)

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