22-Sep-2015, 19:33 (This post was last modified: 22-Sep-2015, 19:52 by Manoet.)
Sorry but at the risk of beginning to sound like Devialet, I'm again going to fail to meet my own goal of having the thermal pads done today and maybe not before the weekend. Getting the old thermal pads off the old contacts and inside their cooling pores is grueling. Clean pic shows the dirtiest one which I opted to tackle first to get it out of the way. After almost 6 hours into it I'm at maybe 90% done. This done with aerosol electronics cleaners like trichcloroethylene, 93% isopropyl alcohol, soft toothbrushes, tons of cotton balls & compressed air. I dare use nothing more aggressive for fear of removing PCB paint or the gold plating. Second pic shows the second-worse set of these and you can imagine another 4 or so hours there and there's two more similarly affected areas after that then measuring, cutting and affixing multiple pads on each contact to get precise pad thickness. Seems the hotter a contact gets the more the thermal pad dries, hardens and adheres to it.
So at this point I won't play Devialet any longer and instead will post texts & pics as projects are finished rather than announcing them ahead of time. I'm worried now I may not even make RMAF but I simply won't rush this. I'd miss 10 audio shows before cutting corners on this project at this point
More as & when I can is the best I can offer for now.
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