Re: [OT] Cleaning Solder Paste

On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 at 23:08, Isaac Marino Bavaresco <
[email protected]> wrote:

> The cotton will endure the heat necessary to melt the solder particles.
> Perhaps you can just melt them and shake them out while molten.
>
> I'd expect that to "matt" the solder into the fabric.
Hopefully I'm wrong.

Swinging the jeans hard against a surface so that the melted solder
experiences sudden acceleration out of the fabric MAY work.
Hopefully I'm right (although I'd not be surprised if I wasn't.)

"Solder sucker" action - possibly by placing the material against a high
suction orifice with good flow across the whole area and melting with a
hot  air gun with "due care" may work. Or not.
As someone suggested - extraction from top surface possible preferable.
YMMV. ACNR :-(.

I have a Bosch hot air gun with digital temperature display that can be set
for air temperatures of 50-450 C.
Something similar may be useful, allowing semi precise temperature control.

Please report back.


 Russell