Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 19:14:38 -0400 From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing the heatsink Message-ID: <19990809191438.A11398@rek.tjls.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908091850360.373-100000@picnic.mat.net>; from Chuck Robey on Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 06:53:09PM -0400 References: <19990809181756.A10485@rek.tjls.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908091850360.373-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 06:53:09PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > I had handled it a *little* before I got the advice (you took about 2 > weeks more than other to reply, you must be a little behind in your > mail). I'm going to go ahead and install it now, but do you know of a > vendor for the grafoil, so that I can eventually replace it? > > BTW, getting those little nuts on, inside the heatsink, well it's the > kind of things you damn the designers for. I didn't really have trouble with it -- I used a calibrated-torque driver with a square drive, and just put a deep-channel socket of the right size on it. The nuts sat pretty snug in the socket, and even when in a few cases they fell off, a few turns of the socket or a sharp rap on the side of the heatsink were sufficient to free things up. I don't know if you can clean the grafoil or not, but I suspect not. If you've handled it other than by the extreme edges, you should probably get a new piece, and clean the processor top and heatsink bottom before installing it. The DEC manual says that you can get a heatsink kit from: United Machine and Tool Design River Road Fremont, NH 03044 +1 603 642 5040 I don't know if they'll sell you _just_ a new piece of grafoil, but if not they can probably tell you either where to get some or what thickness it is (then you can just look around on the net) and you can cut it yourself with an X-acto, using the old piece as a pattern. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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