Sometimes you can just chip that flux mess away with a sharp pick-like
thing (dental pick, carbide scribe, solder tool, whatever.)

Carefully, of course <G>

  Mark

Oliver Broad wrote:
> FWIW I found the same thing with IPA, my solution was to blow the IPA off
> the board (taking the scum with it) before it could evaporate. Still takes a
> couple of passes to clear up all the tidemarks. Worst case of ugly flux I
> saw was when I did rework on a board that had been soldered with a different
> flux originally. Big black tar-like mass surrounding the pad.
>
> Oliver.

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