Wait, you're using just string? That stuff is gonna snap the second it takes any real weight.

Totally believe it. Scorched a pan of onions last week trying to caramelize them fast. They were basically black. Chef said to strain them into the gravy to see. That bitter, smoky flavor is now our steak sauce. People keep asking for it. Sometimes the biggest mistakes just work.

Oh man, cleaning the whole socket sounds like a nightmare. Just to clarify, you wouldn't get paste in the actual socket pins, that would be a disaster. You meant cleaning it off the CPU and motherboard around the socket, right? I use the pea method now, a small dot in the middle. After my own mess, I learned less is definitely more.