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how strong is the adhesive? can you actually pull it apart?
if you can, then to remove the residue, try using isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol that you can buy at any pharmacy store. use a cotton ball or something and dab it and rub it on heatsinks to dissolve the adhesive residue. then it should evaporate.
not trying to be a smart ass or anything here....but why do you want to remove the heat sinks?????
Acetone is often used to dissolve the bonds of a two part epoxy. Since Thermal adhesives are usually epoxies, it's possible that acetone would work. Just get a container of pure acetone (no Extra strength stuff) from the hardware store for about 3$, put it in a large metal pan, and soak the card up to the chip (HSF down). Keep it cool (fridge) to stave off evaporation.
If it's a CPU, you can soak the entire thing in acetone for awhile.
Want to remove the heatsinks on the mem chips of my old watercooled videocard and put the stock heatsink back on , so i can use the card for another project . And then use those removed heatsinks after cleaning for my new videocard thats gonna be watercooled .
I used thermal adhesive instead of thermal tape for safety reasons , because in case they would fall off they would land right on my mobo and maybe cause a shortcut .
Thats why
the problem is that the sinks are attached to the card... it's really hard to get a solvent to penetrate the center of the epoxy.
also if freezing didn't work well... I'm wondering if you diluted the formula, as in it's 1:1 form (no AS5 mixed in), it's VERY strong.
For anyone else in future thinking of epoxing with arctic adhesive, use the 2 parts adhesive to 1 part as5 AND do the as5 dot in the middle of the chip with the epoxy solution only on the outside parts of the chip as it's really gets on there.
Scrape off as much of the tape as possible and use a solvent to remove the tape paste. I have had really good luck using CRC Electronics Cleaner
I've made up a mixture of as5 + as adhesive and glued a mock heatsink onto a piece of ram I have lyring around, once cured I'll test out some different solvents and methods and see what may help you out.
][V][AGIC;1031535968 said:ive done this, usually the surfaces of the ram and the heatsink are too smooth to get a good adhesion. just take a razer blade and get in between the sink and the module and twist it, they should pop right off. then just use the blade to scrape any extra off the ram or heatsinks, then clean up with alcohol.
I am surprised no one has mentioned this earlier. I always heard that using a razor blade (gently) worked fairly well to removing stuck heatsinks.