- Oct 20, 2012
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Hello everyone... I know this may sound kinda stupid compared to the other problems on the forum but here it goes:
I have this fan, a regular cooling case fan 80mm... it started to make noise so I peeled off the sticker in the centre and poured some oil to lubrify it. I sealed it with the sticker (which lost a bit of its sticky property)and cap which it had. All was fine and dandy for a few days... then the fan made noise again, so I opened it up and noticed that the sticker was under a layer of oil because it leaked out from the centre of the fan while spinning...
The sticker now unusable, I decided to use another method: regular scotch tape. only thing is that the same thing happened again (oh and yes, I did clean the surface to make sure there was no oil when laying the tape)...
Basically the only way I can explain it to myself is that the sticker doesn't create enough vacuum to hold everything in place... and anyway I don't know if its a question of using some kind of "special fan sticker"or something... I even researched if u could buy these as I fear the same thing will happen to other fans eventually... but if they exist they must have some specific name other than "fan stickers" cus I found nothing relevant.
I can always order a new fan from the net for 5 bucks but I think its a pity cus the fan still works and I would rather know how to fix this problem properly. It occurred to me that I might be using a "wrong type of oil"or doing something else wrong. If so please do tell or redirect me to the right source of info.
I don't know if this topic has already been discussed but its kind of a "hard-to-formulate-question" for google, so please do have patience if this has already been answered somewhere, its not to waste your time. Thx
I have this fan, a regular cooling case fan 80mm... it started to make noise so I peeled off the sticker in the centre and poured some oil to lubrify it. I sealed it with the sticker (which lost a bit of its sticky property)and cap which it had. All was fine and dandy for a few days... then the fan made noise again, so I opened it up and noticed that the sticker was under a layer of oil because it leaked out from the centre of the fan while spinning...
The sticker now unusable, I decided to use another method: regular scotch tape. only thing is that the same thing happened again (oh and yes, I did clean the surface to make sure there was no oil when laying the tape)...
Basically the only way I can explain it to myself is that the sticker doesn't create enough vacuum to hold everything in place... and anyway I don't know if its a question of using some kind of "special fan sticker"or something... I even researched if u could buy these as I fear the same thing will happen to other fans eventually... but if they exist they must have some specific name other than "fan stickers" cus I found nothing relevant.
I can always order a new fan from the net for 5 bucks but I think its a pity cus the fan still works and I would rather know how to fix this problem properly. It occurred to me that I might be using a "wrong type of oil"or doing something else wrong. If so please do tell or redirect me to the right source of info.
I don't know if this topic has already been discussed but its kind of a "hard-to-formulate-question" for google, so please do have patience if this has already been answered somewhere, its not to waste your time. Thx
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