[plug] [OT] CPU plate cleaning

[Brock Woolf]

You can buy CPU thermal paste at the chemist? I am assuming it is in the
form of a ready made cream or paste, what do you buy that you can use as
thermal paste? Did I understand what you said right?


- Brock
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On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 22:25, Chris Caston wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 21:32, James Devenish wrote:
> 
> > > Cool. Any particular purity?
> > 
> > (Although I could be disastrously wrong...) I would be pretty amused if
> > you had any practical choice in the matter, given that I imagine you're
> > going to pick a product off a retail shelf rather than order litres of
> > analytic reagent, for example. And, a lot of the retail IPA claims
> > pretty high purity anyway. I'd be incredibly surprised if your external
> > cleaning application required you to know what impurities are present.
> > More to the point, people sometimes use a diluent (e.g. water) that
> > itself is likely to be worse than the isopropanol. But, anyway, when
> > people have plain isopropanol (i.e. not pre-mixed with anything), I
> > think most people would go ahead and use it straight away ("suck it and
> > see"). There are plenty of people who use IPA like water with no ill
> > effects (well...don't bother drinking it). I know your question is
> > genuine, and it deserves a proper answer, but I'd be surprised if the
> > answer was something other than "don't worry about the purity".
> > 
> 
> Thanks James,
> 
> I have a "buy everything wholesale" complex these days but you can
> pick-up 90% at the chemist which is probably fine when you're like me
> and only need a dab.
> 
> The reason I ask is because someone suggested* using roughly 50%
> solution for cleaning LCD monitors. 
> 
> *Don't hold me to it I've never tried it.
> > 
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> thanks,
> 
> Chris Caston