At 02:50 PM 8/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
>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?     MILITARY
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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 SOMETIMES FOLLOWED BY VAPOR DEGREASE
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>5) What chemical or solvent are you using?     ISOPROPYL  ALCOHOL, (HAND)
>
>6) Are you happy with your present cleaning process?    NO, I DON'T THINK
IT IS AGRESSIVE ENOUGH, BUT MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING DOESN'T AGREE
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>7) Any additional comments?    ONE OF OUR BIG PROBLEMS IS ENGINEERING, PMO,
MANAGERS, ETC ETC WHO HANDLE FINISHED BOARDS (NOT CONFORMAL COATED ONES)
WITH THEIR BARE HANDS ... SOMEHOW THEY THINK THE ESD STRAP MAKES EVERYTHING OKAY
>
>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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