Make your own thermal epoxy

Use surplus Araldite and TIM to glue a heatsink in place.

Use surplus Araldite and TIM to glue a heatsink in place.

I did this very thing last week. I considered purchasing thermal glue but then decided I couldn't wait. So I took some slow setting epoxy (I don't have any araldite at the moment) and mixed in a small tube of unbranded thermal paste. I then used the past to bond the 2 metal surfaces together so I'd have a custom waterblock to cool the PWM on my motherboard.

Comment by feathers633 at 6:18pm 7th July 2008

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