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1. with a good water wash, just th same as when you solder the beastie 
with a WS flux. No messing, no short cuts.

2. categorically NO! Alcohol may not dissolve the residues, either 
organic or metallic

3. Yes! This is why you need to give it a full-scale wash. You cannot 
clean with a brush: all you will do is harm by spreading those ionics 
all over the place.

WS=WATER soluble - un point, c'est tout!

Brian

Jean-François Bissonnette wrote:
> Hello Technetters,
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> 
> We experienced some problems after reworking circuit boards, I would like to have inputs on the following.
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> The problem found is capacitor leakage.  The capacitor was added manually after automated production.  The boards were coated with acrylic conformal coating.
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> 1-       How should a WS flux be cleaned after a rework?
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> 2-       Can WS be cleaned with alcohol?  If not what would happen?
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> 3-       When reworking a SMT component, can WS flux be trapped under the component and cause leakage.  The rework was cleaned with a brush or similar method.
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> We think that the rework method was as follow (to fix a possible contamination under the component)
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> a-       SMT component is removed (possibly directly through the conformal coating)
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> b-       Using coating thinner, the area is cleaned and verified under UV to ensure no coating is present.
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> c-       WS flux is added
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> d-       Component is soldered back in place
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> e-       Area is cleaned with isopropyl alcohol
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> f-         Coating is added
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> I think I've read that cleaning WS flux with alcohol is a NO NO!  Can anyone confirm and comment? 
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> Jean-Francois 
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