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Originally Posted by Ferdman
Strife, as far as I could determine the thin plastic (looks like Saran Wrap) is there to keep the heat-conducting paste from getting smeared all over the fender liner. I doubt that the plastic has any heat transfer qualities itself. What you're calling paint is actually a thin coating of the white heat-conducting paste.
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I don't have a new one in my possession, but there is a plastic, Kapton, that is commonly used for electrical insulation AND it has good thermal conductivity that if thin enough would feel like Saran Wrap (is it colored orange?). We used to use sheets of mica (a crystalline form of silicon that is actually mined) for this in electronics, but a sheet that big would be hard to get and mica is brittle, etc.
When I mentioned paint, I really meant the paint on the bottom of the unit itself, a semi-gloss black, which is worn off a little of one of my spares.