White sticky stuff on kettle elements

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White sticky stuff on kettle elements

Post by TheNorthEastBrewer » Sun May 13, 2012 9:17 pm

Does anyone know what the white sticky stuff on kettle elements and can you buy it??

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Re: White sticky stuff on kettle elements

Post by alix101 » Sun May 13, 2012 10:02 pm

Can you elaborate...odd question :shock:
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Re: White sticky stuff on kettle elements

Post by keith1664 » Mon May 14, 2012 12:07 am

Do you mean the thermal transfer paste / heat sink compound? If so then yes you can.
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Re: White sticky stuff on kettle elements

Post by TheNorthEastBrewer » Mon May 14, 2012 10:14 am

keith1664 wrote:Do you mean the thermal transfer paste / heat sink compound? If so then yes you can.
Thank you :D

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Re: White sticky stuff on kettle elements

Post by boingy » Mon May 14, 2012 10:26 am

http://www.rapidonline.com/Electronic-C ... ound-65246

Commonly called "bird sh1t" in engineer slang... :D

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Re: White sticky stuff on kettle elements

Post by wjohnson12321 » Mon May 14, 2012 4:10 pm

Just be careful what you do with it. Those that have built computers in the past know that thermal pastes are pretty nasty and can be quite harmful if ingested.

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Re: White sticky stuff on kettle elements

Post by gregorach » Mon May 14, 2012 4:17 pm

How the hell...? No, I don't even want to know. All I can say is that I've built a lot of computers in my time, yet I've always managed to avoid eating the thermal paste.
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Re: White sticky stuff on kettle elements

Post by far9410 » Thu May 17, 2012 5:56 am

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Re: White sticky stuff on kettle elements
by gregorach » Mon May 14, 2012 4:17 pm
How the hell...? No, I don't even want to know. All I can say is that I've built a lot of computers in my time, yet I've always managed to avoid eating the thermal paste.
Cheers

Dunc
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