Removing glued on heatsink (was: Anyone need 486 motherboards?)

From: Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Tue Oct 29 13:29:46 2002

I've always just gone ahead and "pryed" the CPU off the heatsink. The
first time I tried it, I was afraid of breaking the chip, but no such
luck :).

chris wrote:
>
> Ok, anyone know of a safe way of removing a glued on heatsink? I have a
> few of these 486 CPUs where the heatsink is glued down. I could just jam
> a screwdriver in and snap it off, but that just doesn't seem very good
> for the chip.
>
> -chris
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
Received on Tue Oct 29 2002 - 13:29:46 GMT

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