What is a degreaser? A degreaser is a cleaner designed to remove grease, oils, cutting fluids, corrosion inhibitors, handling soils, finger prints, and other contamination common in assembly, stamping,
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When you are removing tough soils like baked-on flux residues or heavy industrial greases, you can have the strongest solvent cleaner in the world (like those offered by Techspray), but you will still
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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
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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
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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
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Because of the low stand-off of QFN components (around ½-1 mil) common on printed circuit boards (PCB), it is very difficult to get enough contact time with a cleaner to break through the flux
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Chemicals are found throughout the electronic assembly and repair process, but no solvent is more common than isopropyl alcohol. It is universally used for cleaning and as a main constituent of fluxes,
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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,
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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
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By Barbara and Ed Kanegsberg, BFK Solutions LLC, guest contributors According to the gospel of Lean Manufacturing, if a company is not lean, it cannot be competitive. The business will fail; workers will
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