I’m in US-GA and I cannot find denatured alcohol locally. WTF happened? I need something 100% alcohol for cleaning electronics.
I’m in US-GA and I cannot find denatured alcohol locally. WTF happened? I need something 100% alcohol for cleaning electronics.
Isopropyl works fine for this sort of application.
Maybe if it is 100%. I have tried 91% and it doesn’t work as well. It needs to be able to clean rosin flux.
My local electronics store has 99.5% isopropyl alcohol, it works great.
We don’t really have electronics stores here anymore. The highest I’ve seen locally is 91%, and while it does kind of clean it off, denatured alcohol has always worked a lot better for me so it’s disappointing to see that it’s gone. I’ll probably just order some online. But still, I’d be interested in knowing why.
Very few people bother with hobbyist electronics anymore. It’s not surprising that 100% alcohol is dead in retail stores. Most demand for it today is related to disinfectants.
I used to use 91 to clean flux and it works fine, might have to do a few passes though
If you clean flux regularly I highly suggest getting a cheap ultrasonic bath and some branson EC solution. It comes concentrated so a bottle lasts forever and solution can be reused a few times. If you only do a few projects a year it’s way overkill but I do a lot of rework stuff and it’s soooo much easier to just drop stuff in the bath for 20m when I’m done. A used decent sized one was like $80 and the solution was like $40 for a quart which has lasted me 2 years so far because I only change the bath once a month and it’s like 2% per gallon. Also super handy for cleaning corroded pcbs, stuff like that if you do repair work
I don’t… sounds like something I should have had many years ago though.
You have to ask for it from the pharmacist. It’s generally kept behind the desk.