[Novalug] OT Hardware question and perhaps humor

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Wed Apr 15 08:44:11 EDT 2009


Ed,

Personally, I wouldn't even consider this.  Fans are not that much, putting
oil in a bearing fan in a PC sounds like crazy talk to me.

Jay


> Well, if you do it Navy-style, yeah - oil everywhere.  So do it
> Air Force style, aim just a drop into the bearing and no problem.
> Been there, done that, boxen still work fine.
>
> Ed James
>
> Quoting "Jay Hart" <jhart@kevla.org>:
>
>>> I've had luck with hitting CPU fans with a blast of compressed air to
>>> quiet down fans.  My guess was that perhaps the dust unbalanced the
>>> fan somehow.  I've also quieted down PSU fans by running machine (NOT
>>> WD40!!!!!) oil down the shaft into the bearing.
>>>
>>> Dust in the heat sink fins mess up heat radiation, so it's bad.  An
>>> unbalanced fan would wear out a bearing faster.
>>>
>>> I'd guess that trying the machine oil (as in oil used for sewing
>>> machine) in your bearings would be at least worth a try.
>>>
>>
>> Machine oil in a computer???  I think not.  If you add oil into the bearing,
>> it can most certainly leak out all over the PC.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>>> Ed James
>>>
>>> Quoting "Bonnie Dalzell" <bdalzell@qis.net>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I built my desktop around 4 years ago. I have a fan on my CPU cooler
>>>> which is noisy when I first turn on the computer. It is however a fancy
>>>> fan with four (yes 4) multicolored LEDs so i like it.
>>>>
>>>> It is sitting on top of a big copper heat sink on top of a Athlon CPU
>>>> chip.
>>>>
>>>> So far I have not been able to find a replacement for it with the four
>>>> [yes 4!] different  multicolor leds.
>>>>
>>>> My solution to the terrible noise at startup has been to keep the side of
>>>> the computer and around 45 seconds after the machine starts up to lightly
>>>> tap the side of the fan casing with a pencil. This stops the noise but
>>>> of course it means that the side is off the case.
>>>>
>>>> I purchased a plain black (not even a single led :-( ) and this AM I
>>>> decided to replace my glorious CPU fan. When I removed it it appeared
>>>> that the heat sink was packed full of dust [incidently i did unplug the
>>>> computer).
>>>>
>>>> So I carefully placed a clean paper towel over the top of the PCI cards
>>>> and got a small artists paint brush and brushed the dust off the top of
>>>> the heat sink and then i took a strip of paper and slipped it between the
>>>> heat sink's thin radiator blades and further removed dust. When I was
>>>> through I had a remarkable amount of dust to throw out. Then i used the
>>>> brush on the fan with the multicolored leds and spun it - it seemed ok so
>>>> I reinstalled it hoping that the dust removal might solve the noise
>>>> problem - which it has not.
>>>>
>>>> Questions -
>>>>
>>>>   (1) I have looked a lot via google for led lighted cpu fans
>>>> for athlon - no luck last month at least.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have an idea of wether it can be repaired?
>>>>
>>>> (2) Was that amount of dust in a heat sink dangerous?
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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