Applying Coollaboratory liquid ultra tim

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DrMrLordX

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I left some of the epoxy on the PCB and used that as a guide plane for the relid. It worked well except for the fact that I lapped my IHS and used a lapped NH-D14 + CLU between them. After a year of being "JB welded" together, the two copper surfaces simply did not want to separate. Uninstalling the HSF took the IHS with it, and there was a little spatter of CLU around the socket from the removal (CLU was also between IHS and die).

Had they been unlapped nickel surfaces I doubt that it would have been an issue.
 

DrMrLordX

Lifer
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If it's a tightly-packed swab then no. The ones included with Conductonaut are actually quite clever.