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Is there a way to remove corrosion off electronic components?
coppercone2:
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--- Quote from: DavidAlfa on May 17, 2023, 03:55:55 pm ---Did copper chloride fully clean the black tin oxide or was it just "good enough"?
About 2 months ago I had to refurb a Tek TG501, everything was badly oxidized, see attached pictures.
Not wanting to take unnecesary risks as lots of parts were unobtanium, I replaced every socket and brushed all the ics by hand.
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The leads take solder like new.
Although they don't look like bare copper, more like grey-ish brown.
At first i thought they were still corroded because the leads looked dark but they take solder perfectly well.
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try putting it in the ultrasonic with alnox, I found it makes things shiny
like metal transistors that look old look newer, and unused solder/crimp connectors too (i.e. spare blades on a connector).
A few times I though "holy shit, how the FUCK am I gonna get all this looking decent" but I am pleasantly surprised after the ultrasonic to only a few patches being bad, which I can hit with neverdull or something. But beware ink disappearing.
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