Cleaning motherboards...

From: Geoffrey Thomas <geoffreythomas_at_onetel.com>
Date: Tue Jan 4 18:28:20 2005

I use Safewash 2000 from Electrolube, specifically designed to remove heavy
flux/dirt from pcb's.
It comes in an aerosol can with an integral brush - it also foams which is
the clue to a better cleaning action it appears.
http://www.computronics.com.au/electrolube/aqclean/
In case of doubt - data sheet here :
http://www.cirrus.it/pdf/262_1390.PDF

Geoff.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: Cleaning motherboards...


> On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 13:09 +0000, listmailgoeshere_at_gmail.com wrote:
> > Servisol "Foaming Cleanser" is the best thing I've seen for cleaning
> > electronics - it's most often used on the outside of cases, but it
> > certainly doesn't do the innards any harm IME (and a chap I know who
> > runs a test/measurement dealership uses a LOT of this stuff - he buys
> > it by the case on a regular basis).
> >
> > I'd be wary of it possibly taking delicate screen print off PCBs
> > (check first on a piece of text you can afford to lose) but not about
> > much else.
>
>
> Watch out for any ceramic ICs. It doesn't take much at all for the black
> lettering to come off the gold portions!
>
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