Thinkpads Forum

Hi Everyone,

I have a T60p that I stripped down and removed the thermal pads (yes I know better now) but the machine now constantly does an emergency shutdown. This always happens when I fire up gpu intensive games also. I took it to the local pc shop who tried the glued pennies trick, but even now it does it. Some days its fine for hours. Some days its minutes. Leave it alone for 30 mins, come back and its all working for a while before it does the same.

Now I really am having issues finding replacement thermal pads. Does anyone know where I can get them?

Cheers

Stu

Try Ebay. Look for 3mm thick thermal pads.

I like a couple of US dime coins instead of a 3mm thermal pad, you can take the dimes (nearly 92% copper) and level them off super smooth and flat with a black emery board, then mount with arctic silver 5 thermal paste, this gives much better heat transfer than a crummy "thermal" pad. yuck!

Don't use a US penny, though - at 97.5% zinc, this is not such a great thermal conductor! - zinc has a k of 67 Btu/(h ft² °F/ft) vs. 220+ Btu/(h ft² °F/ft) for copper at 150°F and 230+ Btu/(h ft² °F/ft) for silver.

and no real need to glue anything, the heatpipe being screwed down has ample force to keep your coins in place!