Heat-sink as add-on?
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Ok didnt wait for daughter so you get my ugly drawings. I was thinking a spring steel wire bail type hold down setup. An example of a simple one can be found https://goo.gl/3rRwvH  I dont want to point to any one site and give them a hug of death. But you get an idea, the wire is formed in such a way that when attached on either end the bends in the center apply pressure on heatsinks placed on the chips. This would likely be a 2 man job to install but would allow for regular heatsink compund to be used for best thermal transfer. 


http://imgur.com/a/x1m0x  Orange lines would be copper heat sinks and the blue lines the steel spring wire. 

I show two angles, above and an elevation so you can envision how the wire would be bent. 

Amazon sells spring tempered wire. Something in this size may be enough tension to hold the heatsinks on http://www.amazon.com/Spring-Temper-Spec...32JBT0J1NZ

I may give this a shot, of course for the 2Gb board like mine we would need one for the bottom as well.


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Heat-sink as add-on? - by longsleep - 02-28-2016, 04:16 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by Tarjei85 - 02-28-2016, 06:18 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by tllim - 02-29-2016, 02:08 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by Tarjei85 - 02-29-2016, 02:21 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by RaspiBit - 02-29-2016, 09:29 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by tllim - 02-29-2016, 10:42 AM
Heat-sink as add-on? - by Zoidiano0 - 02-29-2016, 09:40 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by vsz85 - 03-06-2016, 07:32 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by patrickhwood - 03-06-2016, 12:13 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by janjwerner - 03-06-2016, 09:28 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by janjwerner - 03-06-2016, 02:26 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by tllim - 03-06-2016, 03:12 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by longsleep - 03-06-2016, 02:34 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by janjwerner - 03-06-2016, 02:39 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by longsleep - 03-06-2016, 02:44 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by janjwerner - 03-06-2016, 02:47 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by longsleep - 03-06-2016, 03:31 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by tllim - 03-06-2016, 03:49 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by Andrew2 - 03-07-2016, 01:44 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by tllim - 03-07-2016, 06:48 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by jhgoodwin - 03-30-2016, 10:36 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by peterz - 03-30-2016, 01:19 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by rahlquist - 03-30-2016, 01:36 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by patrickhwood - 03-31-2016, 08:59 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by rahlquist - 03-31-2016, 09:48 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by Andrew2 - 03-31-2016, 11:58 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by Andrew2 - 03-31-2016, 10:25 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by pine.tree - 04-01-2016, 06:57 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by rahlquist - 04-01-2016, 07:10 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by pine.tree - 04-01-2016, 07:27 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by rahlquist - 04-01-2016, 08:15 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by rahlquist - 04-01-2016, 01:10 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by Andrew2 - 04-02-2016, 12:37 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by pine.tree - 04-01-2016, 01:24 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by rahlquist - 04-01-2016, 01:30 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by pine.tree - 04-01-2016, 01:38 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by HappyFuzzy - 04-26-2016, 09:21 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by carb1a4h - 04-26-2016, 09:27 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by g_t_j - 05-26-2016, 09:18 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by SkimMilk - 07-28-2016, 08:09 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by tllim - 07-30-2016, 06:56 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by jaferic - 09-21-2016, 08:27 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by HenryD - 10-18-2016, 08:14 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by benpope81 - 03-15-2017, 05:26 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by vinodmenon80 - 04-17-2017, 03:21 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by pfeerick - 04-17-2017, 07:28 PM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by Luke - 04-18-2017, 03:41 AM
RE: Heat-sink as add-on? - by vinodmenon80 - 04-18-2017, 06:41 AM

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