Hexacon Electric Company's Flo-Clean Soldering Station is designed to allow full benefit from no-clean fluxes without their inherent problems by acting upon the soldering residue while it is still in a gaseous state. Before the fumes have a chance to cool and condense on the board, a stream of hot air from the Flo-Clean volatilizes and dissipates the residue. The result is a solder connection which accepts conformal coatings, does not cause problems during circuit testing and minimizes residue on the board.

Companies that have been using the product have reported that in some applications, particularly soldering of multi-layer circuit boards and in certain high heat capacity manual soldering tasks, the heated air flow of the Flo-Clean works to "preheat" localized areas. This preheating action not only reduces overall process cycle times through shorter soldering dwell time but also increases soldering efficacy when working on multi-layer circuit boards and other demanding and difficult soldering tasks.

For more information contact Keith Hughes, Hexacon Electric Company, 161 West Clay Avenue, Roselle Park, NJ 07204. Phone 908-245-6200, Fax 908-245-6176, E-Mail to Sales@Hexaconelectric.com