Re: Super Serial trouble.

[russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <3b3b15b4@news.iprimus.com.au>,
Mark Cummings <NOTfigjams@primus.com.au> wrote:
>
>This is why you need to blow dry it, as I stated at the end of my post. And
>this is the technique that we are trained to use at work.

Your boards may be specifically made to tolerate water; they may have
to, because the older nasty chemical flux removers are banned or
impractical to use nowadays.  For an Apple II board, this is a bad
idea.  Those sockets will not tolerate water.  And water will be
trapped everywhere (including in the sockets); you are unlikely to be
able to dry it with a simple blow drier.

>There really is no other way to do it. If you only have a blank board and
>add the components, you get flux residue which for a full board will take
>days to remove by any other means.

The way it used to be done is: you take the blank board, solder the
components on, then soak the board in a flux remover.

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Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
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