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Sammus · 02.27.2008, 06:15 PM

Make sure you separate the boards and remove the caps before hitting with the heat gun - I dunno how good direct heat would be for those capacitors.

To put it back on you'd be best off using some thermal transfer compound like what they use to attach heatsinks on pc's. Note there is a normal kinda goo stuff that says soft (bad for this application) or an epoxy version. You want the epoxy. Also you can get silver based versions and ceramic based versions. Probably best off to stick with the ceramic - as the silver one has a bit of capacitance which isnt great if you get it on the circuit board.

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Sammus RC-Monster Titanium Offline Posts: 1,161 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: All over Australia.	02.27.2008, 06:15 PM Make sure you separate the boards and remove the caps before hitting with the heat gun - I dunno how good direct heat would be for those capacitors. To put it back on you'd be best off using some thermal transfer compound like what they use to attach heatsinks on pc's. Note there is a normal kinda goo stuff that says soft (bad for this application) or an epoxy version. You want the epoxy. Also you can get silver based versions and ceramic based versions. Probably best off to stick with the ceramic - as the silver one has a bit of capacitance which isnt great if you get it on the circuit board.