Applying Coollaboratory liquid ultra tim

[DrMrLordX]

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.

 

[thilanliyan]

Any update from OP? How did you end up applying the CLU? With the brush method? I see RockitCool recommending the Q-Tip method.

Wouldn't a q-tip leave small fibres in the TIM?

 

[DrMrLordX]

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