 Did you key and a to fruit present? This week's Ion MPI is from micro care, they're Connecticut company They're what they're connect Connecticut company Connecticut company. Yay USA. Connecticut. All right Okay, well this week I wanted to keep with the holiday themes Yeah, because we did the thermocouple for cooking the turkey and then We did this the low power monitor because we're sleepy after the turkey but now it's time to get a holiday presence and the most annoying part about Getting in grabbing holiday presents is you have to scratch those price tags off of Your presence before you give them. There's any stickers stickers there's always a stickers and barcodes and things and So we saw this on Did you keys new listing and even though it's a kind of a simple thing we thought it was like really handy We picked some up. It's a tidy pens is like the second versions of the tidy pen to From micro care and it's like the whole thing is is it basically, you know How you always get them like sticky goopy stuff left over after you remove a sticker or some tape Or it's on your tools or it's actually you can use it for flux as well It even says here solder flux and oils Which is what I'm using it for But I also just like cleaned up my scissors and stuff because it had like gunk on it That just works really well and you know, it's like a little pen. It you know has a lot of fluid in it has little tips and Here's from the data sheet. I even like how they have those extremely sticky McMaster car stickers on the right. That's definitely they're very sticky and they they leave a lot of goop But a pcb that you know, they make pcb repair tools You have a sticker you want to remove and you want to clean it off. It's pretty easy You basically just you know press on the nib to kind of release some fluid into it and then you scratch Not scratch, but like you rub with the nib to get the fluid all around it and it dissolves it and you wipe it clean That's it. But you know, it's like You know, whatever a couple bucks for a pen Um, if you have a solder flux pen, you probably know how handy those are So I recommend getting one of these and then like next time you check out from digikey You'll have it in your cart and then you'll have it on your workbench for when you need it Because like it definitely works way better than isopropyl alcohol to what I've historically used And doesn't really work very well. I keep I keep using isopropyl even though I know it's not going to work and then I'm disappointed Um, but now I have this tidy pen. So I thought I could like maybe clean off a board as a demo Tidy pen demo, let's go. Yeah. All right. So let me see I got a couple boards that I recently reworked Okay, so let's zoom in Okay, so I replace this led and you see yeah, let me try to zoom in a little bit Do you want to try to zoom in? Yeah, wait not too much because I have to Yeah, back up a little bit Okay, good Um, so this pen it's it has this nib and the nib is kind of firm and when you press It like releases fluid from it. So now it's got some flu you can get extra nibs too. They come in like a pack of like 20 or something and then You can just rub it clean love it and then um, you can wipe it and uh There you go much much cleaner. Oh, yeah, you can get in there. I'm gonna get in there and like get all of it um, I also got this white PCB so this is like even more noticeable So you can this one's got some really old flux on it, but You can see even even on some like years old flux I can remove it. Yeah Yes Love it. Let me get get in here get in there I would watch a live stream show that just like removed flux on PCBs Makes a nice squeaking sound too. Okay, so much cleaner. Oh wait lost forgot a spot here Um, so yes, it's good for cleaning flux. It's meant for you know stickers and stuff But um, it definitely will do flux and they also have a flux pen if you really just want to remove flux um If you have scissors and people have used your scissors for cutting tape Or you have maybe been the uh guilty party You can definitely use this as well to clean up your scissors and and make your tools nice and sharp again It's tidy All right, and it is it's tidy pen. It's tidy. It's pen. It's tidy pen, too You can get them I know this is like a simple eye Some of them are like these intense like look look at the day sheet some of them are like It's this thing it does what it says exactly what it does on the pen and it does that thing I love this MPI because this is everyone is just like I need this Because this is exactly where I spend all my time trying to like get something off the side of the label or something Back it up so you can see it. Um, okay So it's a tidy pen comes in like packs of one packs of five Feelable and it's talking to the key you can uh go to short url digikey dot com four slash short four slash z v One r mp or you can just look for tidy pen on the site. You can also look up 2805 mcc P02 and d and that is this week's iron and p i