Ye Olde HPi Misfire

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Re: Ye Olde HPi Misfire

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http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthr ... ase&page=4

there ya go chap, i know its from a shonky fia... er seat owners forum but this is the stuff i use " dow corning DC4 " aka MS4 its a dielectric silicone compound, have a read of that thread just to give ya a bit more insight on what the stuff is or if you want to find an equivalent to it damn good stuff though as you will see on that forum. Im scouting at the moment on the net for a supplier for you, i know my dad got it from deritend engineering through a contract on severn trent, he er lets say borrowed a tube :P ill keep looking for you mate and reply with what ive found
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well bloody hell, as soon as i left ya that reply i come across this :

http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/displayProduc ... 2-00001000

as well as :

http://www.chilledpc.co.uk/shop/product ... cts_id=227

hope this helps dude :cheesy: took me ages to think who i use for grease, compounds and such for work even RS dont seem to stock it. Im pretty sure after a good clean of all the plugs, coilpack springs and a coating of this stuff on the HT springs, what i actually did is press the springs into the tube itself and wipe the excess off, the excess aint wasted as i scrape that across the "cup " bit of the rubber sleeve the springs slide into.

good luck mate, it sorted me stupid juddery - oh bugger i shouldnt of pulled out off that island in front of that irate person in an artic as my cars just decided to splutter and do nothing :roll:
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Hey cheers fella, I'll get me some of that there stuff and try it next time 8) . Actually reading that other forum it might come in handy elsewhere too :D
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"Excellent for use with peltiers, phase change systems!"

WTF? With a min temp of -50c? My gaming pc at idle runs at about -65c on a standard (well the cooling section anyway) Vapochill LS...
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You've got Liquid cooling on your PC? :o
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No, phase-change. Water cooled PCs can only go as low as the ambient temperature but this goes well into sub-zero territory. It's a bloody heavy unit (literally the business part of a freezer in a box) which sits under the tower and has a flexible hose which terminates as a copper block which gets strapped to the CPU in place of the heatsink.fan. You pack the processor socket with dielectric grease and stick a heating element behind it to prevent condensation. Generally I can buy mid-range processors and run them around twice as fast as they're meant to go using this, resulting in a ludicrously fast machine for not much money 8)
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Excellent!

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look wot i found in my garage dai :cheesy: i " borrowed " it a few years ago from where i worked and when i finished they never asked for it back :roll:
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on the back of the tube it says " a non melting, waterproofing and insulating compound for ignition systems and electronics equipment "

bloody good stuff it is as well 8) . let me know if you still want it and i can drop it up to you thursday or friday as im up merthyr then .
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Cheers Darren, that'd be great. :D
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thinking about it, this stuff just doesnt get bought, it gets passed down or borrowed from, my dad never bought the tube he got, he "ahem" borrowed it from severn trent , hmm im thinking i should go in the garage and check to see if we still have our tube, only cus the tube you have pictured looks in a very scarily similar state as the one we got :wink: praps theres only one tube and it travels round in search for people who need it
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I've got some dow corning heat-transfer paste which I, err, borowed from my previous workplace :oops:
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Top man Darren, just dropped off a tube of DC4 8)

Will let you know the outcome onceI've had a go with it :D
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so have u had any luck with it then ?
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Ain't tried it yet :oops:

Car is behaving at the moment and if it ain't broke..... :supafrisk:
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