Removing conductive foam residue from IC pins?

[Joe R.]

   I've found that hot water gets it off about as well as anything. But
nothing seems to remove ALL of it.

   Joe



At 11:37 AM 8/9/05 -0400, you wrote:
>    I have a bunch of old ICs that were stored in conductive foam, and I 
>wish to move them to plastic tubes.  The foam has decayed to that state 
>where it just crumbles when touched.  Any recommendations for cleaning 
>off this old foam?  It can be scraped off, to some degree, with 
>fingernails, but I risk bending the pins, and it's not all that thorough.
>
>    Soaking them in alcohol is probably not a good idea. :)
>
>    --jc
>