DEC DS10L Fix CPUFan!

[Jon Elson]

On 10/28/2016 03:33 PM, Daniel Olsson wrote:
> Hey Jon!
>
> Thank you for the tips, i will see if i can open it up in 
> someway, the fan is kinda like a laptop blower style, but 
> a bigger version of it :) I think i will need to buy new 
> bearings for it when i have read on google about the fan.
>
>


Anyway, I was thinking about the little 4" boxer fans, which 
a DS10L may not have.  A number of mid-size and larger Vax 
and Alpha systems had blowers made by EBM-Papst.  It might 
be harder to get these opened, they were not meant to be 
repairable.  The bearings are almost certainly ball bearing, 
so if you can get it apart without breaking the impeller, 
you should be able to press the bearings off the shaft and 
new ones on.
It is probably not a job to be done with the simplest of 
hand tools, however.

I've used a few of these blowers in some of my projects, but 
never had them get noisy.

Jon