Easy PC Kits Premium Heatsink Lapping Kit - Components
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The kit includes a glass backing plate, many different grit sandpapers, polishing compound and directions.
- Glass backing surface.
- One tube of Arctic Silver Ceramique.
- ¼ size sheets of wet/dry sand paper consisting of the following grits in order: 400, 600, 800, 1000, 40 micron, 25 micron, 20 micron, 15 micron, and 10 micron.
- One bag of 10,000 grit polishing compound.
- Two sheets of directions/suggestions and tips for polishing.
- One cable zip tie bag -- free gift! (20 pieces)
Features
The glass backing plate is provided with the premium lapping kit to provide the consumer with a hard flat surface suitable for lapping. The glass has been deburred, but may possibly break or crack during shipping.
Arctic Silver Ceramique thermal paste is provided with the kit so that, when the user replaces their heatsink in their system, they are able to apply a fresh coat of thermal paste to aid in thermal transfer. Note that Ceramique needs to “burn in,” and temperatures normally decrease within 24-48 hours of hot and cold cycles.
400grit sandpaper is provided to quickly remove any imperfections in the base of the heatsink. 400grit paper also leaves a very rough finish, much worse than the original finish of the heatsink in most cases.
600, 800, and 1000grit paper are used to remove all of the scratch marks from the 400grit paper. 600grit maintains as large a cutting action as 400grit, but at a finer grit so it does not cut away the actual heatsink. Each grit of paper cuts away at the imperfections left behind by the previous set of papers, until you are left with a 1000grit finish.
The micron sand papers are used as finishing papers. They have a very low cutting action. All of the major imperfections must be removed before proceeding with these papers, as they are designed to remove very small imperfections and leave the heatsink with a mirror like finish.
The polishing compound is an unnecessary step in the lapping cycle. Polishing the heatsink removes even the slightest imperfections left by the 10 micron sand papers. Using the polishing compound is the equivalent of using 10,000grit papers, and provides a very slow, dull cutting action to remove the slightest imperfections and leave the user with an amazing finish on the base of the heatsink that isn’t possible from machining techniques.
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