Homebrew PCBs

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:13:57 +0200, derekhawkins <eldata@...> wrote:

>
> I'm assuming that after you solder you're going to have flux residue
> and burnt polish residue around joints....What cleanup solvent do you
> use that doesn't also remove your wax coating in the area and create an
> unholy mess? This applies to the other suggestions where the protective
> coating is applied before soldering as well. Needless to say these
> coatings seem to preclude a reflow job in an oven for any oddball SMDs.


Colophony can be just left as it is.

You can put SMD paste straight on it and reflow, it won't do any harm. The  
SMD paste should use a flux you can keep on the PCB without fearing  
corrosion though.

ST