NorthStar Horizon restoration question

On 6/24/2014 12:25 AM, Dave Caroline wrote: There were a lot of fluxes which were not a problem, just didn't look nice. Some hardened up, some stayed gooey and attracted dust, which was a problem. Also I don't recall any that were water soluble then. We always had freon to clean the boards, which didn't damage the components. Only risk I recall was that you didn't want to immerse anything that could have flux on it, as it went into solution and got distributed over everything, unless you used a flux bath machine which removed it from solution. So things like switches still had to be sealed or you could risk making them not close. You never wanted to do that anyway, I'm just mentioning what happened when you didn't seal such as switches. So I don't know how or what you'd use to clean it that would not damage the board worse than leaving it. Hopefully it is now pretty much lost all the volatiles and is hard resin. They never should have used any corrosive core in electronic manufacture anyway, that should not be a problem. That would have caused problems before now if they had used it anyway.