Bboy Satch Posted April 15, 2004 Posted April 15, 2004 I wanted to lap my intel stock fan. Problem is that its not lapped to the highest quality and kinda made mistakes lapping. I got frustated when i was lapping, following the instructions in the guide but didn't get a mirror finish. I kinda got a scratched mirror finish, wasn't mirror finish, and also wasn't perfectly flat. So i began to follow the instuctions except put lots of preasure, anf was going very fast. In the end, it was better then my first try at it, got kinda a mirror finish except its not perfectly flat, more like 2 mirror finishs on the heatsink. Can't explain but wondering if i can fix it?? making more flat? should i just follow the steps again? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick_fourdumbkids Posted April 15, 2004 Posted April 15, 2004 dunno if the guide told you this but the best surface to lap a heat sink on is a piece of glass and don't go really fast take your time lapping the heatsink to a really good finish (mirror like) can take quite awhile i've heard people go at it for 4 hours and more so jus relax get a cup of tea and make smooth figure of eights on the sand paper hopefully that should get it back flat if not time for a new h/s an fan stock colling is cray n e way... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHOCKA Posted April 16, 2004 Posted April 16, 2004 an easy way to find high/low points is take a sharpie and color the bottom black then put it to some fine sandpapaer and work at it for a second. pick it up and youll see the high points are copper/silver (whatever heatshink you have) and the low points will still be the black color Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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