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tgujay:
So I am very new to soldering but want to get into it to do some key switch swaps and other things.  I just popped my soldering cherry on fixing my Rosewills mini usb port but there is some residue that I'm not sure what it is.  It doesn't seem to negatively affect anything as my keyboard still works fine but I was just curious what it is.  Maybe I can get rid of it or avoid it in the future?

alaricljs:
That should be partially cooked flux.  Use rubbing alcohol, the higher the purity the more effective it will be.

tgujay:

--- Quote from: alaricljs on Fri, 24 August 2012, 14:29:09 ---That should be partially cooked flux.  Use rubbing alcohol, the higher the purity the more effective it will be.

--- End quote ---
Thank you! I will try that.

tgujay:
Does my soldering on the USB port look ok?

tgujay:
It worked! Thanks so much alaricljs!

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