Turns out they make heatsinks for TO-92 packages. Felthry was cracking up when it saw this one the other day; it looks ridiculous.

You don't generally use anything in a TO-92 package if it's going to be dissipating any significant amount of heat, so I'm really not sure what the point of this heatsink is, but it certainly does look ridiculous.

@Rosemary I think it looks like an spatual. It could heat sink a scrambled egg perhaps?

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@Doggo It's designed to go on a device in one of these packages. If you imagine that heatsink on one of these, it kind of reminds us of someone wearing a giant ridiculous hat.

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