Radio shack or any decent electronics parts store. I have to wonder what Dometic used originally. The stuff I removed looked and felt like some kind of mastic. Images: http://tinyurl.com/n2r626q http://tinyurl.com/mzzpam9 I have read that it's possible to use too much paste and this might serve to partially insulate the two parts from each other. Be careful not to push the cooling unit on over the lip at end of black pipe. On my old 182A, it was possible to take the cooling unit apart. I redid the paste there too. Your newer Dometic likely has rivets holding the aluminum cooling unit parts together.
On 3/24/14, email99@bellsouth.net <email99@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Where can thermal paste be obtained for mounting the "ice-tray holder", > otherwise known as the Evaporator Assembly, or "the thing that is > supposed to get cold inside the refrigerator", onto the pipe that actually > gets cold? Is there a source other than computer cpu heat sink > paste? What's the best stuff to use? > > I've seen Thermal Mastic suggested but this seems to be for duct sealant and > is not necessarily for conducting thermal energy like cpu Arctic Silver and > other products. The snap mounting is plenty secure without any adhesive > mastic.
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