Gentlemen, thank you very much for your help. Now I know where to start from (Vinegar). DI water is perhaps within my reach but high temperature vaccuum baking surely not. I will inform you how i procede.
Best regards Ulrich Bangert > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com > [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] Im Auftrag von Neville Michie > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2011 03:52 > An: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Betreff: Re: [time-nuts] Completely OT: Removing > electrolytics of leakingcapacitors from a pcb > > > Acetic acid is volatile, that is why it is smelly. White spirit > vinegar is fairly pure, > while other types of vinegar have flavourings, sugars, salt and > residues. > > That is good, because when you have finished cleaning up > the final traces will evaporate into the air. > Most other acids are non-volatile and the traces remain > forever. That is not true for hydrochloric acid, which is > volatile but it is > very corrosive > and will cause any iron in the room to rust. > Ammonia is a volatile alkali, good for neutralising acids to > soluble salts, and it is volatile so traces after clean up evaporate. > > cheers, Neville Michie > > On 20/01/2011, at 12:37 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote: > > > On 19/01/11 14:57, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Try a mild acid like citric (lemon-) or citric (vinegar). > > > > Vinegar would be acetic acid, the same stuff that's used in > > photographic stop bath (although there are some 'non-smelly' > > variants based on citric acid). > > > > </pedantic-comment> > > > > > > -- > > Phil. > > li...@philpem.me.uk > > http://www.philpem.me.uk/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ > > time-nuts > > and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.