cudaboy_71
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Location: sacramento, ca, u.s.
| sorry AUW = all up weight
good idea taking off the label. but, be careful with the thermal paste. it's tricky stuff to get to work properly....if you just slop it on like toothpaste it'll run hotter than without. and, to apply it properly to a curved surface makes it even more difficult.
FWIW, thermal paste is a microscopic gap filler. you should only apply enough to create a microscopic film on the metal surfaces (both of them). then, when you create the contact between them, the metal still contacts metal, but the microscopic pits of the metal are filled in with the paste, thereby making a heat transfer contact where there was none before. if you create a barrier with the paste between the metal-metal contacts that are already existant, you will lose heat transfer.
hope that makes sense. and, sorry if you already knew that....but, i find many people who do not understand what the stuff is for and make things worse for themselves.
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in fact, here is an excellent writeup on how to properly apply thermal compound to a computer processor-heat sink interface. after reading through, you'll probably find that properly applying it to a motor-heatsink interface is nearly impossible or not worth the effort. that's my take anyway 
good luck.
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