I’m in US-GA and I cannot find denatured alcohol locally. WTF happened? I need something 100% alcohol for cleaning electronics.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          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.

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      1 year ago

      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