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Old 14th Sep 2017, 10:40 am   #34
Craig Sawyers
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Default Re: Re-anodising heatsinks?

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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler View Post
There's also a guy in Sweden who takes aluminium electrolytic capacitors, de-cans them and re-homes the innards in little hardwood housings. His web pages are quite lyrical about the improvements to be obtained and the effects of different woods. No mention of life-expectancy. I'm afraid I didn't bother to save the URL when I was pointed to it.

Couldn't be the same bloke, could it? I suppose he'd have gone for Iroko heatsinks.

At least the gold plate will have virtually no effect in either direction.

David
Good grief. Sounds like the sort of hokum that gives rise to mains fuses filled with beeswax.

No - the guy I know's day job is at the Karolinska Institute carrying out research aiming at helping stroke patients recover more quickly and better by Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.

His degree is in engineering Physics with majors in mathematics and computer science.

So a hard technologist - not a smoke and mirrors guy by any stretch

Craig
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