Grant Well! There's a nice can of worms to open up! I generally say a "no-clean" flux has been formulated not to need cleaning, under specific circumstances: as such it may be very difficult to clean, even impossible. Notwithstanding, the residues of SOME "no-clean" fluxes can be successfully cleaned, but often requiring fairly aggressive and tricky processes. If the volume of products requiring cleaning justifies it, my recommendation would be to go to water-soluble chemistry for those products requiring cleaning: i.e. split the product lines although, of course, you could share printing, placement/insertion machines and reflow ovens, provided that the operators are well trained to segregate the assemblies. One customer I have with this problem uses a different coloured solder mask for the boards that require cleaning, to reduce the risk of bad channeling. This way, you have no compromise, as you must if you use the same flux/paste for both cleaning and not cleaning. Brian Grant Emandien wrote: > hi all, > > Has anyone had any sort of success in the cleaning of 'no clean' fluxes on > assemblies which are then to be conformally coated. I ask this as our > processes (or at least their output) is at variance with new customer > requirements, and hence may need to adjust or possibly introduce new ones. > No Clean fluxes are used on the bulk of our products and now venturing in > contract manufacturing, new requirements of coming more and more to the > fore. > > Thanks > Grant > > ############################################################## > TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c > ############################################################## > To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in > the body: > To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> > To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET > ############################################################## > Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional > information. > If you need assistance - contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or > 847-509-9700 ext.5315 > ############################################################## ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ##############################################################