10 Jun
2015
10 Jun
'15
3:20 p.m.
On 06/10/2015 01:13 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, Adrian Graham wrote:
Boca Bearings has just about any bearing you could want. I've rebuilt
some noisy Dell computer fans with their bearings.
Jon
Trying to source a non-DEC fan for a 4100 CPU
since getting them in the UK
is more and more tricky as time goes on. The originals are 12V 0.17A 60mm
3-wire and I've found some almost-identical-but-not-quite 0.18A variants.
Needed to rewire the plugs to match (12V, sense, gnd) but the machine
reports 'CPU0 Fan Fail' despite the fact the fan is running at speed.
I
too found I could not find a sufficiently similar fan to run in a 4100
without being seen as a fan failure so I ended up rebuilding them. These
are fans have replaceable bearings so I took mine apart, measured the
bearings with calipers, and purchased a dozen replacements from a random
web bearing supplier. That was three or four years ago, if I hunt very
hard then I might the name of the vendor and the part number but right
now my basement office is in boxes as we clean up renovate after a burst
water pipe.