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Direct answer How to clean off flux depends on what type of flux was used. Most electronic parts can handle being washed in clean water. In fact, boards often go thru what amounts to an industri...
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#2: Post edited
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Lorenzo Donati
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2023-08-01T20:51:37Z (over 1 year ago)
Typo.
- <h3>Direct answer</h3>
- How to clean off flux depends on what type of flux was used. Most electronic parts can handle being washed in clean water. In fact, boards often go thru what amounts to an industrial dish washer after soldering. If water soluble flux was used, then this will probably work.
- Check that all the parts can handle water first, though. Some parts have pull-off tabs that you leave in place until after the water rinse.
- Other types of flux require solvents like alcohol, or other more nasty chemicals. Check the type of flux used, and what the various parts on the board can tolerate.
- <h3>The real answer</h3>
There is no excuse for getting flux inside such a connector in the first place. You need to have a talk with you assembly house. I would seriously question their practices, and at the very least demand inspection so that I don't pay for incorrectly assembled boards.- If you are doing this by hand, be more careful. Some parts are really not meant for hand soldering, but most likely you're just being sloppy.
- Without a detailed picture of the part and the problem, there is little more to say.
- <h3>Direct answer</h3>
- How to clean off flux depends on what type of flux was used. Most electronic parts can handle being washed in clean water. In fact, boards often go thru what amounts to an industrial dish washer after soldering. If water soluble flux was used, then this will probably work.
- Check that all the parts can handle water first, though. Some parts have pull-off tabs that you leave in place until after the water rinse.
- Other types of flux require solvents like alcohol, or other more nasty chemicals. Check the type of flux used, and what the various parts on the board can tolerate.
- <h3>The real answer</h3>
- There is no excuse for getting flux inside such a connector in the first place. You need to have a talk with your assembly house. I would seriously question their practices, and at the very least demand inspection so that I don't pay for incorrectly assembled boards.
- If you are doing this by hand, be more careful. Some parts are really not meant for hand soldering, but most likely you're just being sloppy.
- Without a detailed picture of the part and the problem, there is little more to say.
#1: Initial revision
by
Olin Lathrop
·
2020-12-06T15:18:26Z (almost 4 years ago)
<h3>Direct answer</h3> How to clean off flux depends on what type of flux was used. Most electronic parts can handle being washed in clean water. In fact, boards often go thru what amounts to an industrial dish washer after soldering. If water soluble flux was used, then this will probably work. Check that all the parts can handle water first, though. Some parts have pull-off tabs that you leave in place until after the water rinse. Other types of flux require solvents like alcohol, or other more nasty chemicals. Check the type of flux used, and what the various parts on the board can tolerate. <h3>The real answer</h3> There is no excuse for getting flux inside such a connector in the first place. You need to have a talk with you assembly house. I would seriously question their practices, and at the very least demand inspection so that I don't pay for incorrectly assembled boards. If you are doing this by hand, be more careful. Some parts are really not meant for hand soldering, but most likely you're just being sloppy. Without a detailed picture of the part and the problem, there is little more to say.