you can never have to much, especially some thin high metal stuff, it will just run out and short out on some pins below it
You should always remove a seating and check how the squish looks , analise the actual metal to metal contact area , thinness across the whole seating area , and if any dry or to thick areas existed , that way you only have to seat it 2 times, before you stuff it in never to be seen again.
Then you never have to wonder if the base is wacked, if the cap on the proc is wacked, or if your mounting system was offset or incorrect in any way.
so there is no loss in having to undo it all again.
it also give you an opertunity to take off that piece of plastic cover you forgot to remove, and get that dustbunny and hair off that stuck to it when you were mounting it.
Most of the Tims are greacy like and very viciously viscious , clean off with lint free rag , like microfiber towel that doesnt drop fibers , alcohol and amonnia can loosen it some, high solvent tech sprays will loose it a lot. Dawn will break it up , but then you would have to clear it completly and start over again. anything that gets mixed in that damages its properties, including alcohol ammonia or tim cleaner , and you would prefer to remove it all dry completly , and start again.
if it has not gone far, is thick enough just lint free cloth stuff , polyester, nylon socks , will get the majority up, then that is all that would be required.
not all CLAIMED to be lint free cloths are, fibers can fall off the edges of cheaply cut "lint free" cloths supplied by screen protectors, fibers can fall off of microfiber cloths, eyeglasses junk cloths can have fibers. you can basically tell if you have good eyes and a feel for it. most of todays lint-free are plastic fiber cloth, chances are good that you have some sort of plastic clothes that are similar.
we have used Q-tip to remove, but you have to roll the q-tip so it stays together, and microscopically view and remove any cotten fibers, there are also unnatural fiber psudo q-tips that drop less fibers, you know the ones that dont work in ears
if we use paper towels or TP to clean, it is only when it is all going to be removed and start again, of course they drop wood fiber all over.
if you keep it 100% clean and untainted, it can easily be used again, Unless it was some of the few very special types .
dont touch it, all them human oils are acidic, if you cant keep your hand off it, wash most of the oils off your fingers first, then there wont be much transfer, dont use gloves, unless they are non-powdered clean room type.
another method would be to get a clean plastic scooping item, (plastic utinsils that were clean) scoop off the mess and store it in a clean plastic dixie cup or something, making sure that nothing has tainted it, remove everything , then re-use this stored stuff after you get whatever you used to clean it fully gone and dry again.
Who says conducting heat off the sides isnt just as important as the top
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