Glue guns are the best invention ever

[Red Squirrel]

So my CPU fan has been acting up, ball bearings shot, randomly starts griding - really annoying. I was doing a huge transfer and other work but it was just driving me insane so I had to do something, but could shutdown the pc as it has active transfers.

So I open up the case, unplug the fan, open up the pc probe and monitor for about 10 minutes to see if I can afford to do this or not, temp went up by maybe 10 degrees, acceptable to me. So I plug it back in just to cool the cpu back to where it was, unplug it,unscrew it, get a 80mm fan but it did not fit quite with the holes, so the answer? GLUE GUN! Just like my video card fan. Exept in the case of the CPU there's a plastic section so I did not have to worry about gluing it directly on the heat sink which could cause it to melt. But it seems the cpu could actually run without a fan it would just run rather hot. Not like my AMD 2000+ which runs so hot.

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[richardj]

A hint about saving fans

On one side or the other there is a round sticker in the middle of the motor

If you remove it, you will see the end of the shaft & the top of the bearing.

Drop a DROP of penetrating oil in there & replace the sticker--I re-glue the edges.

I saved 3 noisy fans recently doing this.

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[Red Squirrel]

Yeah I've done that before, but it usually won't last too long. Specially with those thin fans.

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