Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "How Restoration Videos Are Faked" video.

I worked at a board assembly house where we'd make printed circuit boards. We'd populate the boards with parts. It's what we did. After we got done wave soldering boards we'd load them into a dishwasher to get the flux off of them. We did that to every board we made. Most electronics components are hermetically sealed. If they weren't we'd put those on by hand after the rest of the board was wave soldered. That cost extra. We had this goop we could put on the pads to mask that off from solder. It stuck OK but you could peel it right off. It was pink.
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@Baylough.Technologies we never had a problem with water spots. We'd rack boards standing up to let them dry. The shop was air conditioned so stuff would dry out in a short amount of time. The kinds of customers we had demanded high quality work. We weren't exactly cheap. Work done in the USA never is. We actually did QA on every board we made. So no pinholes and no crooked components.
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Some turtles can fight back. They don't call them snapping turtles for nothing.
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Yeah but you try to talk about things liberals don't want to hear about and you're gone like the wind.
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@atari2600b my ex-boss at the assembly house I worked at swore by Maytag dishwashers. We used water soluble flux in our wave solder machine. The bubbler. Before a board hit the solder wave it'd pass through a clump of flux foam. It was like a tiny little bubble machine. The solder wave was so feng shui. Just this waterfall of molten solder. The board would hit it at an angle. We had a 13" wide machine.
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@un7n0wing85 the chance of a capacitor remaining charged while power is off is extremely remote. That is because the capacitors are in circuits that will discharge them. It's why they're there.
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Why would you have to remove RAM or CPUs? Just because they're socketed?
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@mrpeebsshorts yeah I don't think so. Not unless you're pressure washing stuff.
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@tookitogo that's probably how the board was washed when it was built. Because that definitely happened.
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@tookitogo just because the scumbags didn't clean the flux off doesn't mean what they did was perfect.
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@tookitogo leaving crud on a circuit board is never a good idea. It's a lazy scumbag move!
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@tookitogo it doesn't have to be the best for me, just good enough. To that end I want flux cleaned off too.
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@tookitogo flux left on circuit boards is just shoddy workmanship. Now there's plenty of reasons to do a poor job. Not the least of which is that it's cheaper and easier to do. That can keep costs down and profits up. Those are good things. I'm not OK flux covered circuits personally though.
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@tookitogo don't listen to a manufacturer trying to push their product. Of course they're going to try to say things that will appeal to their customers. Duh! Use our crap and make more money! Kester is a great brand but they're not above marketing.
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@tookitogo don't be so gullible. Everyone is going to tow the company line.
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@tookitogo one paper is not going to change my opinion that's formed over 50 years. Flux has a job to do and once it's done it then flux needs to be cleaned off. Simple as that.
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@tookitogo I've seen that old equipment with the dank rosin flux on it and that flux didn't do that gear any favors. Although that's not usually what's wrong with gear that old. The flux being there still didn't help any though. I must admit I do love the smell when that stuff burns.
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I made circuit boards at a commercial board assembly house and we'd wash every board we made in a dishwasher using hard city water. There was no way my cheap ass boss would have sprang for distilled water.
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If plastic is next to metal that rusts the rust will stain the plastic and embed into it too. I've definitely seen it happen with tires on rusty old rims. Getting that crusted rust off isn't easy either. I had that problem on my garden cart. You don't want to know what new tires and rims cost on spoked garden carts.
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Must resist the urge to eat paint flakes.
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