thermally conductive gels/pastes 1

[omby]

Does anyone know of, or could recomend any commercially available gels or pastes that I could use to conduct teperature to the tip of a thermocouple that is inserted into a hole drilled in a refractory brick.
The gel/paste needs to be able to withstand upto 200 degs c and must not set solid as the thermocouples have to be removed periodically. It also has to be reasonably cheap as there are a lot of thermocouples that will require treating. I'm looking at buying it by the bucket load, not small tubes like the heat sink compounds used on pcb's.

 

[ScottyUK]

Electrolube's HTS and HTSP are right in your temperature range and available in 25kg buckets.

http://www.electrolube.com/docs/bheat.html#aHTS

Dow Corning's 340 heatsink compound will be available in large quantities too - I didn't register with their site to pull the full data so I don't know what the exact package quantities are.

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[omby]

Thanks. I'll drop them a line and get more info.

regards

omby