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Damage a case fan by vacuuming air vents from the outside?
In alt.comp.hardware, on Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:23:18 -0800, pyotr
filipivich wrote: mike on Mon, 23 Jan 2017 04:20:19 -0800 typed in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general the following: On 1/23/2017 1:37 AM, micky wrote: Can you damage a case fan by vacuuming the air vents from the outside? (I have a Dell Optiplex 775 with the original fan. ) It seems more than safe to me, but I happened to read the manual for a Noctua fan and it says not to use a vacuum cleaner or it may apply "excessive force to the fan". I find that hard to believe. I've pushed on the vanes of other 3, 4, and 5" fans and they don't bend at all with the kind of force vacuum cleaners exert. In fact I think they would be hard to break. Are Noctua fans more fragile than others? I think the case fan is rarely the problem. I buy all my computers at garage sales. I've never, ever had a case fan that had a dirt problem. I've had MANY CPU fans 100% blocked with cat hair. If you think you've got dust, take it apart and blow it out with compressed air, Use the canned stuff. Don't take it into the shop and blow it out with air from the 120 psi line - with or without the inline oiler. What about the grease gun? Where do I use that? I don't have a 120 psi line, but I have the image of a can of air having no more force than a spray can of paint or bug spray. Is that really enough to move the dust, some of which I think is sort of stuck to whatever it's stuck to? |
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