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

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue Oct 29 18:46:01 2002

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, 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.

Better a single edge razor blade or a putty knife than a screwdriver!
Too much local load with the screwdriver blade - probably crack the
chip.
                                                - don

> -chris
> <http://www.mythtech.net>
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Received on Tue Oct 29 2002 - 18:46:01 GMT

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