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| james_s:
I just smear a thin even coat with my finger. Too much paste is a common mistake and is worse than too little. |
| wraper:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 13, 2018, 06:45:12 pm ---I just smear a thin even coat with my finger. Too much paste is a common mistake and is worse than too little. --- End quote --- Unless it's a conductive crap, too much paste won't do anything bad, excessive amount will just squeeze out. Well, unless you apply so much that it gets into CPU socket. Too little can cause actual problems. |
| Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 13, 2018, 06:45:12 pm ---I just smear a thin even coat with my finger. Too much paste is a common mistake and is worse than too little. --- End quote --- The video already posted shows even a rather excessive amount has no discernible impact. The conclusions really does seem to be that all these hard fought wisdoms of the internet turn out to be made up lines in the sand to fight over. Everyone needs a hobby, I guess. |
| james_s:
Too much paste makes a huge mess all over everything, and in the case of power transistors I've replaced failed transistors that had so much paste that they weren't sitting flat on the heatsink. Also those silver types tend to be conductive, I repaired something that was malfunctioning due to conductive paste oozing out on the leads. |
| wraper:
--- Quote from: james_s on December 13, 2018, 07:44:57 pm ---Too much paste makes a huge mess all over everything, and in the case of power transistors I've replaced failed transistors that had so much paste that they weren't sitting flat on the heatsink. --- End quote --- If transistors were not sitting flat, it's certainly not because of the amount of the thermal paste. But because they were not mounted properly or were not tightened as should. --- Quote ---I repaired something that was malfunctioning due to conductive paste oozing out on the leads. --- End quote --- You need to buy that crap specially. And those are not even among the best in regards of thermal conductivity of modern thermal pastes. |
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