Re: [PLUG] Noisy computer fans

[gyoza@comcast.net]

WD-40 is a solvent, not a lubricant.  WD stands for water displacing.  
WD-40 might actually remove whatever lubrication was in there.  (Once or 
twice I used sprays that cause plastic parts to break.  One time it was 
a volume potentiometer.)  Still, I know WD-40 will actually, somehow, 
help, as in your case.

I used to use WD-40 on bike chains.  It helps at first because it's wet 
I guess.  heh  Now I use a Teflon spray, which is dry lubrication.  
(Chains like it.  Humans might get cancer from it.  Who knows?)  I also 
use it on car weather stripping.  Not on a fan so far.


Greg Helledy wrote:
> >The shuttles have a slightly wonky CPU fan that rattles loose in a 
> year >or two and ceases to be as quiet, although it's still not as 
> loud as a >normal PC.
>
> Last year I bought a graphics card that ended up having a pretty noisy 
> fan.  I mentioned this to a guy at a computer shop and he said a shot 
> of WD-40 would work wonders.  I was skeptical but put a bit right into 
> the "cup" formed by the fan (where it is attached to the motor shaft) 
> and let it work its way in from there.  It was an immediate and 
> dramatic improvement.  Only now (about 9 months later) is it starting 
> to get noisy again.
>
> Greg Helledy
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