I've used the dental-floss trick, well, actually, thin fishing line. It worked well enough without the alcohol, it was just a slow, steady process.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:06 PM Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@hackerposse.com> wrote: > Bought a nice CPU a while back, with a cheap motherboard to put it onto > until I found something better (in retrospect, that was probably silly...). > > Finally found a better motherboard, and am now reminde that > (a) now I need to get the heatsink off of the CPU in order > to transfer the CPU between the ZIF sockets (since the socket lever > is covered by the heatsink), and (b) baked thermal paste is > a remarkably good adhesive. > > Somewhat surprisingly..., the CPU is out of the original socket > at this point--it popped out while I was fiddling with the heatsink. > I'm going on the assumption that nothing got broken in the process, > for the time being.... > > Any suggestions on what the right course of action is, here? > > Wikihow advises to soak the CPU+heatsink assembly in isopropanol > and then slicing them apart with dental floss..... > > > -- > "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ >
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