Hair gel

[Twinkle]

I may sound crazy but could I use hair gel as thermal adhisive.

[Thelemac]

You *could*...but it probably wouldn't work that well. Better than nothing, but you should consider some real thermal grease.

[cool_hand_joe13]

How can you use hair jell for thermal paste???????????????????
Explain,does not compute..........

[Oni]

Thats gotta be the strangest thing that I've read all day . . .

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by cool_hand_joe13
How can you use hair jell for thermal paste???????????????????
Explain,does not compute..........

Put it between the cpu and heatsink. It'll transfer heat a bit better than the air that would be trapped in there without it. Not a ton better, but a little bit.

Overall, not really worth it.

[sfa ok]

It's better than nothing, but you really should go to Radioshack and buy some proper thermal goo.

[VashTheStampede]

"What's that? Is that hair gel?" - Something About Mary

Heh, sorry had to do it :D

~RT~

[Christoph]

This sounds interesting. Anybody got a recipe for homemade thermal goop?
I'm quite happy with my non-conductive Nanotherm Ice.

[sneakyfart]

try Zinc Oxide if you cant get "real Thermal Grease"

[William]

I collect wierd posts like this one.

Hoot’s Alternatives to Thermal Grease

Get some thermal compound on that thing. Until you do, use a thin layer of petroleum jelly, dialectric grease, even Crisco! They're better than nothing!

[*spazzed*]

how about toothpaste? :D

[TheCrow]

As someone sayed... Its better than nothing!!!:D

[TheCrow]

How about some gum!:)

[TheCrow]

Originally posted by RedneckTech
"What's that? Is that hair gel?" - Something About Mary

Heh, sorry had to do it :D

~RT~

That kind of gel would reproduce hundreds of tiniy CPUs!:D
Imagine if they were twins... :D Same serial number and all...:D :D :D

[TheCrow]

Originally posted by Twinkle
I may sound crazy but could I use hair gel as thermal adhisive.

I really dont now if that would work! But if youre gonna give it a try....let us know!

[Pecos]

I think it would depend on what the 'melting point' of the particular brand of hair gel is.

I'd just go to Radio Shack and get some thermal paste. Seems like there's one or two in every town nowadays anyhow.

[.. AE 86 ..]

try using some of ur thickest saliva...
i bet it would evaporate away

maybe u can consider shampoo or conditioner if hair gel doesn't work well enough... :D :D

[Dunga Bee]

Originally posted by Twinkle
I may sound crazy but could I use hair gel as thermal adhisive.

Actually you could NOT use gel as an adhesive, since it will not really hold anything in place (other than hair).

You could use it for thermal paste, say between your CPU and HSF, but not as adhesive to hold a HSF on a video card or something like that.

I'd recommend true thermal grease or true thermal adhesive depending on what you need (grease or glue).

[heavenly4you2]

Gotta link this one to a forum where i am a lot !!!!.....hairspray.......HOW do you get that thought..inhaling a lot of it...hehe
Sorry , had to do this ..........Whoooaaah !

[Christoph]

Why hasn't anybody mentioned applesauce? I tried it and it lowered my temperatures by 7.5 °C. Then I realized that I'd frozen the applesauce and forgotten to turn on the computer.

[Frodo Baggins]

Originally posted by *spazzed*
how about toothpaste? :D

Sorry but toothpaste is worse then nothing. It seems that when it's hot, it will turn into this dry flaky crap, that will even kill the cooling

[AmbientFiction]

AF2( Arctic Fecal 2) is out on the market if you wish to try that. Now it may smell funny but it will lower your temps buy a good 8ºF as long as its not hot when you pur it on.