3- What material do you use to clean the old fan? You use Isopropyl alcohol- 99%???
First I use #1 Coffee filter in my screen shot and apply a small amount of Isopropyl alcohol (#2) to the filter and use it to remove the old thermal paste from both the heat sink and CPU.
The I use #3 (Thermal Material Remover) and apply a small amount to another Coffee filter to remove any remaining thermal past from the CPU and heat sink.
Next I use #4 (Thermal Surface Purifier) and apply a small amount to another Coffee filter to prepare the CPU and heat sink. Then I apply the new thermal paste.
Items number 3 and 4 in my screen shot were purchased from Amazon, scroll down read the product description as posted on Amazon's web site:http://www.amazon.com/ArctiClean-60ml-Kit-30ml/dp/B0007TOR08/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1443896029&sr=8-1&keywords=Thermal+heatsink+cleaner
Thanks a lot,
First of all, I am very very upset that I live in a county out of commerce since I have been looking for fan heatsink, and other parts for my notebook for about a year. But they are not available in Yemen. I contact the HP support team in the closer country
to me, which is United Arab Emirates. But they told me they cannot be able to help me by shipping the spare parts I need. Also, since not all sellers can ship to Yemen. Also, Items shipped to Yemen right now, even in fine conditions, get stolen or lost in
the Yemen customs. I only would try to find a way or ask a seller at any online seller website if he/she can ship to a third party shipping address, such as Saudi Arabia. Then, I would use an shipping address of friend of mine residing in Saudi Arabia.
Could you please confirm my points below:
1- you used Isopropyl alcohol (#2), and Items number 3 and 4 only to remove the old thermal, do you think this is redundant, and a was a waste of money.
2- Coffee filter can only be used to do this action or it has other benefits/uses., if have other uses could you give me a link of a good kind of Coffee filter at amazon.com or eBay.com
3- Items number 3 and 4 and Isopropyl alcohol, all could only use to remove the old thermal compounds, or I can use them to clean the notebook screens. If no, then I would not always remove thermal compound(only one time
I would do, so what I would do for the remains).
4- Could you please give me a link of a good kind of Isoproply alcohol at amazon.com or ebay.com
5- I know how to contact a seller at eBay.com by clicking on the seller's name shown under each item, however, I really don't find a way to contact a seller at Amazon.com since there is no sellers' names shown under items at Amazon.com.
6- I can find thermal compound brand you used at amazon.com or eBay.com as well?
7- could you please reply to this point below:
Yes, my fan has rubber pad(screen shot below is for my fan/heatsink)

However, the first screen shot of the heatsink posted before is sold for $18.
However, other heatsinks having the same replace part numbers, such as the second screen shot posted before is sold for more than
$26, such as the second screen don't have the pad in clear view.
I don't think that the heatsink sold for $18 is better than others sold more than $26.
I have done
Zoom in on the photos from both suppliers
(Copy and paste both to a folder) and open / view each photo using Microsoft's Paint.exe and you can see it's a rubber pad.
However, pad is still not clear.
