Shutset
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Earlier, I found an article that says you can soften the paint with olive oil then scrap it off with a plastic spudge. How does that sound?
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Thank you very much. One last thing, does anyone know a safe way to remove paint from the heatblocks and pipes (which are aluminum and copper, respectively, if I'm correct) without damaging the metal?
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Okay but how do you think Tech Ingredients' epoxy compares?
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Yes, I know. I only bought these ones to experiment with - see if I can bend them by hand (using the technique demonstrated here. I just barely managed but I further bent them about with just my hands only to see if I can get them to bridge the heatblocks. I never intended to use them for the actual cooling. Thermally conductive fast curing epoxy resin? Where can I find that? I considered that but I found that A) It's too expensive for me and B) Too risky, especially given that I have absolutely no soldering experience. I don't want to risk overheating my heatpipes and blowing them up! Besides, I watched the video about Tech Ingredients' thermal epoxy from the company itself and I was convinced this may be the next best thing. https://youtu.be/8MOTMq9g8Nk
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I'm trying to figure out an affordable way to improve my Thinkpad T440p's cooling without breaking the bank so I done some research over the year and bought some cheap laptop heatpipes for testing. So I think I came up with a plan. My T440p has a 00HM903 dGPU fan so I plan to use a pair of copper heatpipes (one 7cm and one 6cm) to bridge between the CPU and GPU heatblocks. After finding a way to remove the paint safely from the affected areas of the stock cooler without damaging the pipes, I will use Honeywell PTM7950 padding to make contact between the cooler and new pipes to ensure optimal heat transference and then I will use the TechIngredients thermal epoxy to glue the sides to the cooler, sealing the PTM7950 padding inside. My rough plan for modifying my T440p's cooler. Keeping the new heatpipes straight, I'd only bend them ever slightly vertically to make sure both ends can touch the heatblocks. I figured a second extra heatpipe would help transfer more heat from the CPU to the GPU heatblock. Notice the copper/graphene heatsink on top of the CPU heatblock. In theory, this should provide maximum thermal performance with the best of both worlds - thermal compound and adhesive. I will also apply this principal to install some extra heatsinks to the CPU heatblock. Of course, this is all just theory so far which is why I wanted to bring this up here for any feedback and advice. Thank you.
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I am using a Thinkpad and recently installed a Transcend 2242 M.2 SSD which I fitted with a new heatsink. The heatsink itself is actually a 2282 NVMe one which I sawed in half to fit the 2242 SSD then I plugged it inside, booted it and installed a new Linux distro. It was working fine. However, after watching a Youtube video on copper shims, I'm suddenly worried if I hadn't cleaned my sawed-off heatsink enough and there might be a little bit of copper dust inside my laptop. What I plan to do is remove the SSD and heatsink to give it a good wash but I wonder if there is a mini vacuum cleaner suited for laptops (i.e. having non-ESD bristles) or if there is another way to suck possible dust out without having to completely take apart my laptop. Thanks.
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rasperry pi Missing tools for my Raspberry PI Ice Tower Cooler. What do I need?
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Thankfully, I managed to loosen them with a pair of pliers then took them off with my fingers. Thanks. -
I have had a Raspberry Pi 4B fitted with an Ice Tower cooler for a long time now. Sadly, I lost the tools to get the screws off so its currently stuck together. I could buy another Ice Tower cooler and use the tools it comes with but I must be able to buy the tools I need separately. As you can see in this photo (Sorry about the blur but this is the best I could take with the only camera I got), its a tiny hex knut I need unscrewed from my Pi. Does anyone know exactly what kind of tool I need? Thank you.
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Lately, I've come across a site that sells faraday clothes that supposedly block wireless signals to protect your body, similar to signal blocking pouches for your phones and other devices. While I'm very keen to buy some items from them, I reigning myself in to investigate whether or not they work and how their customer support is. https://getlambs.com/ So I thought I'd ask if anyone here on LTT has bought from Lambs and tried their wares and see what they can tell me about it. Thanks.
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Yeah. I see that now. So just to be clear, which material should I get? Copper or aluminum? Wait. What if I filled the pipe with thermal glue? Would it transfer heat again? Or fill it with thermal compound then seal it with thermal glue?
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I dunked the piece in some water and found a lot of debris fall out of the heatpipe so now it's mostly hollow. Does that actually impact its performance in any way?
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I'm kinda a perfectionist. I didn't want a plain old heatsink but a piece of a high end one to maximize cooling for my SSD. Plus I learned that, by using a full size heatsink on my entire SSD and thus cooling the NAND flash, I actually degrade its performance and lifespan so I have to focus cooling on only the controller. I did consider buying a raspberry pi heatsink but I kinda bought the full heatsink, originally just planning to cut it in half, then refreshed my memory on everything too late. Rather than buy a raspberry pi heatsink, I wanted to see if I could, indeed, cut the regular heatsink to fit the SSD's controller, which I did.
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Does it matter if its soft or hard water?
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This is sort of a follow-up to my last thread here. I bought an M.2 SATA SSD for my laptop and I want to cool only the controller chip while leaving the other ones (i.e. DRAM and NAND flash) untouched. So I bought a be quiet! MC1 Pro M.2 heatsink and managed to cut a piece off with a hacksaw, and smoothed and sides and edges with a filer, to fit that controller. However, I'm worried that any tiny debris from the cutoff ends of the copper heatpipe (or the heatpipe itself) may fall out and damage the electronics inside the laptop so I wonder if I should glue the sides of the piece with thermal glue or something. If that's all I need to do or if there any better ideas, thanks.
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One last thing. I managed to cut a piece off of a be quiet! MC1 Pro M.2 heatsink right here. The idea is that I attach this piece to the controller chip with a thin layer of thermal paste in between. (I used a hacksaw and a filer). Seeing what I did here, do you think I should apply some thermal glue on the sides where the copper heatpipe is cut off just so no bits or the pipe itself falls out? (Mind you, I did shake the thing rigorously and it did not fall out.) Thanks.
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