Since the thermal pad didn't survive the battery removal, decided to burn the $20 on a seemingly comparable 2mm thick, 14W-m pad.

A few dings in shipping & a bit squished, but obviously the mane customer is a true believer in placebos, trying to squeeze out 1 more fps from a game rather than someone trying to fix a camera.

Marked the chip outline.

Used the plastic liner to mount it without breaking it.

Most importantly, took the plastic liner off after mounting it.  Tested it in 88F indoors with the 50mm fan.

5.3k 60fps was still instant death.

4.3k 8:7 24fps no stabilization is highly desired for night shooting.  It actually held up when any previous mode was dying at 86F with the 30mm fan.  It could still be the fan, but there's a chance the tape & the paste layers required by the metal shim were blocking a lot of heat.  The big question is how long the pad lasts until it no longer exerts enough positive pressure on the heat sink.  It seemed to exert a bit of pressure when it was new.

Also, after years of general purpose splitters, tried making a daisychain for this one. The problem is it can't be reused for anything else like a splitter. The hope is it won't wear out as fast as a spitter. The splitter had unused connectors which seemed to get dirty & fail.  All the daisychain connecters are going to be used when it's in the field. 

There's actually an abundance of female connectors, while the same number of male connectors would be required to use a splitter.

So this assembly of cooling fan & heat sink clamp is a pain to transfer between a tripod & vehicle mount.  What's really needed now is a way to mount the CF rod mounted camera on a tripod.