When you delid you are left with solder on the underside of the IHS and on the die itself.
liquid metal will dissolve the solder but what remains is a lot so best scrape off what you can first so it’s less applications of liquid metal, I got a cheap plastic razor and it’s great at removing almost all of it then a little bit liquid metal and then flitz polish to remove base plating and die is like a mirror.
liquid metal will dissolve the solder but what remains is a lot so best scrape off what you can first so it’s less applications of liquid metal, I got a cheap plastic razor and it’s great at removing almost all of it then a little bit liquid metal and then flitz polish to remove base plating and die is like a mirror.