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How To Use Spot Mask for Wave Soldering & Conformal Coating

Say you’re a contract manufacturer of printed circuit boards (PCBs), and your customer just made an engineering change that leaves several thru-hole vias open. If you run it through the wave as is, next...

The Expert’s Guide to Degreasers & Maintenance Cleaners

What is a degreaser? A degreaser is a cleaner designed to remove grease, oils, cutting fluids, corrosion inhibitors, handling soils, fingerprints, and other contamination common in assembly, stamping and next...

Guide to Solvent and Water-based Ultrasonic Cleaning

When you are removing tough soils like baked-on flux residues or heavy industrial greases, you could have one of the strongest solvent cleaners in the world (like those offered by Techspray), but you would next...

Cleaners Developed to Minimize Global Warming Effect

With global warming in the news and greenhouse gases getting more regulatory attention, electronic and industrial manufacturers are on the look-out for ways to reduce carbon emissions. Techspray has been next...

Small Product Changes Can Lead to Big Problems

By Barbara and Ed Kanegsberg, BFK Solutions LLC, guest contributors The manufacturer does vapor deposition. Coating was successful – except when it wasn’t. The manufacturer wanted consistently next...

Choosing The Best Cleaning Process for Your Needs – An Overview

This is a multi-part series covering the best practices of establishing a new cleaning process. These are written by Pierce Pillon, Techspray’s Field Engineer. Contact us if you want Pierce’s next...

How to Clean Flux From Under Low Stand-Off QFN Components

Because of the low stand-off of QFN components (around ½-1 mil) common on printed circuit boards (PCBs), it is very difficult to get enough contact time with a cleaner to break through the flux next...

Cleaning Electronics with Isopropyl Alcohol

A variety of chemicals can be found throughout the electronic assembly and repair process, but no solvent appears more commonly than isopropyl alcohol. It is universally used for cleaning and as a main next...

Optimizing the Vapor Degreasing Process

Vapor degreasers use a closed-loop system that works very reliably and efficiently as long as it is set-up correctly. If not, you can experience solvent loss, equipment corrosion, loss of cleaning performance, next...

Trans: the Cleaning Workhorse

Trans-1, 2 - Dichloroethylene, commonly called “trans”, is an important solvent cleaning workhorse because it has high solvency, is reasonably priced, and can easily be formulated into nonflammable next...