<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Agreed. Pressure alone will keep things proper. You want it to conduct the heat from the CPU to the dissipater and in order to do that it has to be remain “not dry” (for lack of a better, saner, more logical term).<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 25, 2015, at 2:54 PM, Chuck Cole <<a href="mailto:cncole@earthlink.net" class="">cncole@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">

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<div dir="ltr" align="left" class=""><span class="024195319-25082015"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="4" class="">The paste should not dry.  If so it is 
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  <font face="Tahoma" size="2" class=""><b class="">From:</b> <a href="mailto:tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org" class="">tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org</a> 
  [<a href="mailto:tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org" class="">mailto:tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org</a>] <b class="">On Behalf Of </b>Brian 
  Wood<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 25, 2015 2:18 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b> 
  tclug-list<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b> Re: [tclug-list] Got it 
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  <div class="">Ryan Coleman writes:<br class=""><br class="">><br class="">>You?re not running this computer 
  right now, right? Not doing <br class="">> this and running the computer is being 
  careless at this point.<br class=""><br class=""></div>I cleaned the old paste off of the chip 
  and applied some new <br class="">paste and everything seems to still be fine.  I 
  wasn't sure how<br class="">long to leave the box on it's side while the paste 
  dried.  I only<br class="">gave it a few minutes before putting it back up on it's 
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  <div class="">Brian<span class=""></span><span class=""><span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps" class=""></span></span><span class=""></span><br class="">Ebenezer 
  Enterprises - <span class=""></span><span class=""><span style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps" class=""></span></span><span class=""></span><span class="" id="en-NASB-14356">Be strong and let your heart take courage,</span><br class=""><span class="">all you who hope in the <span class="" style="FONT-VARIANT: small-caps">L-rd</span>.</span>  Psalms 
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