In this paper an acidic precipitation agent bearing mercapta was used to capture heavy metals (including Cu, Pb, Sn and Fe) from the HNO 3-type wastewater in the solder stripping process of PCB factories. The experimental results showed that the feasible precipitation factors are: the precipitation agent is added by the chemically calculated amount to the wastewater with stirring and accompanying of 12 g/L SO 2 and 3~5 mL of 1% PAM (MW=400 000), respectively. The regenerated solution after filtration was as good as the fresh stripping solution...