![]() It's also environmentally safe to use alcohol and dish detergents. A lot of the solvents used for flux certainly are not safe to handle, alcohol and detergent are really the only things that won't give you cancer or liquefy your brain. As long as it leaves no residue, or as long as you rinse it off well with distilled water, and you allow it to dry/bake at a low temperature (or blast it with compressed air), you shouldn't have any issues with it, I never have had any issues myself. In truth, there is really no reason to not use a detergent, it's really just a gel consisting of hydrocarbon chains with hydrophillic and hydrophobic components, historically manufactured from some kind of fat and lye. ![]() Some people "might" object to it, but I have had far better success with detergents over alcohol or anything else. ![]() I have had good luck with "hand-safe" detergents. You can use certain dish detergents provided that A: they are not overly acidic/corrosive (rosin/flux itself is fairly acidic) and B: they don't leave any residue/salts. ![]() There is a discussion of the Poly-Clens suggestion at Hackaday. Poly-Clensīurton Lang (mentioned above) also suggests, as a flux cleaner, the Poly-Clens product, though this may not be available globally, and can damage some plastics. These are apparently the same three chemicals used in a commercial flux cleaner made by MG Chemicals.
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