Hello! I recently purchased 20 lbs of scrap from ebay, I have just finished manual depopulation of every board with pliers and exact-o knife. ( Will be using a blow torch to remove all ceramic capacitors and other small surface mounted devices). I plan on using the Acid/Peroxide method to remove the gold plating on the boards that have it. Now my question is ; will using HCL to help remove some base metals before A/P be beneficial? If so how would I go about cleaning with Hcl?
-Here is another sub question - what exactly is a solder mask? Is it the green coating on the boards?
Thank you!
Edited*-I yielded around 2lbs of flat black chips and around 200 grams of pins from the lot
-Here is another sub question - what exactly is a solder mask? Is it the green coating on the boards?
Thank you!
Edited*-I yielded around 2lbs of flat black chips and around 200 grams of pins from the lot