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Introduction to the World of Precision Cleaning Swabs

This is a brief introduction to selecting a precision swab for use in laboratories, clean rooms, electronic assembly, rework, and repair of electronics. We’ll be speaking in generalities, but you next...

Maintaining ESD S20.20 Compliant Environments in the Age of COVID-19 Sanitizing and PPE

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised awareness of the potential for viral contamination around the workplace. Personal protection equipment (PPE) is starting to be used in new areas to avoid transmission of next...

Techspray Response to COVID-19

ITW Contamination Control – Electronics, the manufacturing facility for Chemtronics and Techspray products, is considered an essential critical business as classified by the Department of Homeland next...

Isopropyl Alcohol (IPA) Replacements for Electronic Assembly and Repair

Isopropyl alcohol (CAS #67-63-0), also referred to as IPA, isopropanol, and 2-propanol, may be in short supply for the coming weeks or months because of the COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) pandemic. This next...

A Permanent ESD-Safe Coating With Clear Benefits

EMS and PCB repair facilities that work with static sensitive equipment are very familiar with ANSI/ESD-S20.20 and the challenge of maintaining compliance. You buy all the right benches, mats, straps, next...

Using Freeze Spray to Diagnose Faulty Electronics

Let’s say you are repairing a circuit board, and there’s a faulty component or solder joint somewhere, but you just can’t find it. What do you do? Freeze spray is an important tool for next...

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...