Why Not Just Use Isopropyl Alcohol or Acetone?
Put isopropyl alcohol or acetone on a thermal pad and 10 minutes later you will have a thermal pad.
Only with a lot of rubbing and scrubbing will you be able to remove the pad.
While the alcohol or acetone may soften the pad, neither actually dissolves the pad.
Although less visible, it is the same cleaning thermal greases with alcohol or acetone.
ArctiClean 1 totally emulsifies
thermal pads and thermal greases.
The waxes, oils, and fillers of the thermal material are suspended within the ArctiClean 1 so they can be cleaned off completely.
This emulsification allow ArctiClean to remove the thermal material in the microscopic imperfections in the heatsink or heat spreader that non-emulsifying cleaners cannot touch.
The flash corrosion inhibitors in ArctiClean 2 then significantly reduce the corrosion layer on the copper or aluminum, improving the interface between the metal and the new thermal material and maximizing thermal transfer.