Repair your computer fan while it is still in your computer

[paul b]

I had to perform surgery to my computer fan while it was still in the computer. This little fan was making a racket. I pulled the computer apart but this fan is in a part of the computer that doesn't lend itself to be taken apart without taking apart the entire guts and I didn't want to get into that if I didn't have to. I also tried to order that fan, but it seems it is un-available. (I changed the CPU fan while I was in there. I didn't have an exact match, but retrofitted a different one)

To repair this tiny fan, I first cut away the grill to expose the fan center. Then I peeled back the paper label to reveal the red dust cover plug. After removing that I put one drop of light machine oil on the fan shaft. Now it is as quiet as a hermit crab just after shedding his shell while he is sitting in a sound proof room, underground in Tibet.