Melbourne
Terry, I wanted to thank you for this guide also.
I've done little in the way of board work before, but this guide gave me the confidence to have a go at it. I'm in the process of installing sockets and NVRAM into both of my WPC games. Thanks to the great advice in this guide, it's all going very smoothly and I haven't had any problems.
Here's a list of things I had never used before but now can't live without: fibreglass pen, liquid rosin flux, Hakko FR-300 desoldering gun.
I do have a question about cleaning boards however. I used some MG Chemicals 'Flux removed for PC boards' and it does a great job of cleaning off old flux. The problem I have however is the boards still look messy as you can see the outer ring where flux remover dried. I've also had the same issue when using isopropyl alcohol and shellite/naptha. is there some trick to getting them completely clean?
