Thermal Tape???

[jhautz]

I want to try and "restick" the fets to the case of the quark, but I dont want to get into thermal epoxy and such. The heatsink on the back of the quark doesnt seem to be working the same magic that it once did. This was the first one that I put a heatsink on and back then it solved the thermal problem with great sucess. However as of late its just not the same. I am running the same truck, with the same overall gearing, and the same motor, and same batteries... but it is definatly overheating much easier now than it did in the past. I used to be able to run this thing all day with this setup and never have to stop because of heat. But... It seems as if its gotten worse over time. So I tryed swapping in a quark from another truck that is only a couple months old and it ran like it was supposed to. All the way through a whole 8000mah pack and didnt have to stop for ESC cool down. So, I'm thinking that the thermal tape/pads on the inside of the older quark are probably starting to come loose from the vibration and such. If I can get this to work like it used to by just replacing the thermal pads Id like to do that rather than getting crazy with all kinds of mods that Ive seen done.

Can anyone tell me how thick the thermal tape they use is? I was looking at this stuff and wondering if it would work for sticking the fets to the heatsink.

http://shop2.outpost.com/product/277...H:MAIN_RSLT_PG


If anyone knows anything about thermal tapes. I really dont want to get into making custom thermal pads and using the permanant thermal epoxy like many have done. If I can just get it back to where it was Id be happy to treat it like a maintenance item. Every season open it up and replace the thermal pads tape. That would be no big deal.

I just dont know what type of thermal tape to use. Anyone have any info or links to something that would work?