removing parts from PCBs

[Bjørn Vermo]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:56:35 +0100, Marvin Johnston <marvin at rain.org>  
wrote:

>
> A much better alternative to peanut oil is fusing or reflow oil used in
> the printed circuit industry (used most probably in the smaller shops.)
> It runs $84.30/gallon according to information on the DalPro website.
> While they seem to have the supplies necessary to make PCBs, their
> prices are ... high. I would try a local printed circuit manufacturer to
> see if I could get some their first. My guess is that it shouldn't be
> more than about $8.00/gallon.
>
> http://www.dalpro.net/Page.html
>
> BTW, peanut oil used to be used for reflow many many moons ago and was
> replaced at least 25 years ago with synthetic oils.
>
>

At those prices I would rather try ricinus oil. It does not even burn in  
the cylinder when you use it as lubrication for high performance  
two-stroke engines.

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