I haven't had to do that, I simply put a couple of pens under the back corners to allow air-flow underneath.
You can also tilt the display down to about 45 degrees and place it on it's side, vents up. If you haven't already, you will probably want to set FAH to suspend when you are on battery power. I also had to adjust the power management setting to prevent "sleep" while on wall power. It won't fold if your CPU goes to sleep.
HiGuy! That little Toshiba won't sleep with it running and the top open.
WOW!!! I just installed folding on my big box and it HATES my ATI graphics card and freezes everything up ... does NOT want to run on this thing...oh well!
"Laptops tend to run hot."
Those are good suggestions, Swamp Fox. Here are some other things I do for my laptop.
I leave my laptop running on ac all night. I remove the DVD drive, battery, and PCMCIA wireless card. All three of these generate extra heat, which as we know, can kill the processor (the extra air flow also helps). I turn it up on it's side, as you suggest, but I leave the CPU at 100%. It gets somewhat warm, but not hot. I have also turned off scheduling AV scans and HDD defragging, and do those manually during the day once a month (stopping the FAH task while doing so). I also set the power settings to turn off the monitor after 15 minutes because it also generates some heat. In the mornings, I plug in the wireless network card for about 30 minutes so it can update stats and upload WUs. (I configured the FAHconsole to pause when running on battery so it doesn't run down the battery or interfere with business when I'm with clients.)
The only problem I've had, is an occasional HDD crash, but I don't think that's related to leaving it on or running FAH. (The HDD might be getting too hot since this is an older laptop. It has only crashed twice in the last 3 months - both times at night, but that was before removing the scans from the scheduler.)
Hope this helps.
RT
Around my house, we use the little laptop cooling pads that run off a USB port. Works great at increasing airflow and cooling them off.