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"Baron" wrote in message
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1D10T wrote:


"Baron" wrote in message
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Trust me, you don't want to dismantle it just to get at the fan !
Your first idea was the better one and if you look carefully you
will see that forcing air back through the heatsink and out through
the fan will
clear most if not all the dust bunnies. But do it outside where
the dust can disperse downwind.

What about causing fan/fans to spin up too fast from the blast of
air?

Have you ever broken one ? I haven't !

I haven't, but I know of two people who have. It didn't hurt the
blades, but the bearings became real noisy. I always put a finger or
something like a loop of wire against the blades just to be sure. Why
not, it's easy to do?

Quite probably because the dust clinging to the blades and hub got blown
away. This probably would allow the fan to rotate a little more
quickly. There is no real reason other than normal wear for a fan to
be noisy.

Jamming the fan blades in the way you describe is likely to do real
damage to the blades causing a major problem ! Definitely not to be
recommended.

But in response to the original poster, I've seen more damage done by
people taking their laptop apart than ever I have seen done by
carefully air blasting dust bunnies out ! The trick is blowing the
dust out in the opposite direction to the way it got in !

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Best Regards:
Baron.