Hi, I had to look up a few words of your reply in the dictonary... You can (or could) do that for your own equipment, but I can't imagine me walking around with grease tubes and mineral spirits in the computer rooms of those days. Second, a fan costed about $10-$15 and a computer engineer about $80-$100 per hour. Third, you could't take the risk - if the bloody thing went down again the next 12 months, you smoked a huge cuban havana... and at last, this things are supposed to be impedance protected, but after being stalled for some time, more then once the windings were damaged... this was perhaps less common on the 110V versions, but our european 220V's had other behaviors. This was not ebay stuff you bought for a few bucks, but $80.000 - $100.000 equipment. Luc -----Original Message----- From: cctech-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of R. D. Davis Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 7:39 PM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: BA11-F boxer muffin fan source ? Quothe Luc Vande Velde, from writings of Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 07:09:49PM +0200: Why??? I thought that only clueless biz'driods and related idiots replaced perfectly good repairable equipment. All that one needs to do is disassemble the fans, clean them up, soak the old bearings/race assembly in mineral spirits, apply new grease and then reassemble the fans. -- Copyright (C) 2003 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.