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He must have one of them thee-raur-a-sus's.  They don't let us have them in
the south

Bob

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Subject:        Re: [TN] no clean flux as a board cleaner?

I just love reading Brian's comments.  Where else are you going to find
someone use the word "horripilated"?

Doug





Brian Ellis <[log in to unmask]>@ipc.org> on 10/11/2002 03:16:26 AM

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Subject:    Re: [TN] no clean flux as a board cleaner?


Genny

It's a long time since I heard such a suggestion :-( This is murder to
any reliability. Horrendous, horrent, horrible, horrid, horrific,
horrified, horripilated, horror-struck hardly describes it. NO WAY!

Brian

Genny Gibbard wrote:
> Consider a hand rework situation.
> We had a revelation from our production floor that occasionally a
> certain product is cleaned using a no-clean flux pen.  We have a product
> that the customer is very stringent that if we use no-clean solder on
> their product, we must not clean any residue off the board with our
> standard board wash.
> However, if a component is removed and replaced during a rework
> situation, often there is a lot of excess flux residue left on the
> board.  It came to light that in order to make this look better, they
> were applying a small amount of no-clean flux to the area with a flux
> pen, and then scrubbing the area with a brush.
>
> There were several horrified expressions around the table when this came
> to light.
>
> What would be the dangers of doing this?  The board is not heated like a
> reflow situation, or anything like that, after the 'cleaning' operation,
> so does this mean the flux may not be 'inert'?  I thought that it is
> no-clean flux used in the rework in the first place - why do they need
> to clean it off?  They said that it looked awful, and the inspectors
> wouldn't let the product thru if it wasn't cleaned up.
>
> Thoughts, suggestions?  Should we be horrified, or just let them
continue?
>
> Genny Gibbard (mailto:[log in to unmask])
>
>
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