>I'm doing a survey to determine how others in industry are cleaning (assuming
>you do clean) flux residue from hand soldering operations like soldering wires
>to terminals on small sub-assemblies, etc. I'm really interested in military
>hardware, but all can reply. My questions are as follows:
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>1) Military or Commercial? DoD and commercial avionics
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>2) Clean or no clean? Clean
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>3) What flux type are you using? RMA
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>4) Hand or machine cleaning? Hand after hand soldering.
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>5) What chemical or solvent are you using? Micro Care ProClean
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>6) Are you happy with your present cleaning process? It's OK
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>7) Any additional comments? We water wash with a saponifier prior to
confromal coating all assemblies.
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>Thanks for your time and cooperation. I will tabulate all of the results and
>post it on Technet when complete.
>
>Jim Marsico
>(516) 595-5879
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