Install Top Exhaust Fan Through Metal?

[ReSpAwN DeMoN]

hehehe ya that's true. I can make my computer look even more hooked up. I think I might do that just for that affect. I'll stick a baseball card in the fan to make it make a loud sound like kids used to do to there bicycles to make them sound like motorcycles.

[Mr. C]

LOL Own it man:thumb:

[ReSpAwN DeMoN]

uh oh..........this was a real brief thought I didn't put much thought into it but something I just thought of was.....how exactly do you get the power cable with the molex connector into the case?

[SegiY]

i drilled a hole where the cables come though, then cut through from the main hole to there, just be carefull not to slice the sheilding.

[Mr. C]

I cut off the molex connector as I'm running the blower from my fanbus. I did double up the heatshrink tubing at the point the wire comes through the hole, in case there is a burr there - better safe than sorry.

[ReSpAwN DeMoN]

this is getting more diffucult then I thought. Its just not as easy as it seemed yesterday.

[drpeterbright]

What's the best way to "finish" an external fan? Are there any shrouds available?

[Wiggo]

It wouldn't be too hard to shape something up for the job. ;)

[drpeterbright]

:D I guess you could cut some plexi for the sides & if you used a fan with an led ... now you've got me thinking. How do you average over 45 posts a day?

[Wiggo]

It use to be much worst. :eek:
<img src="http://forums.tweaktown.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=2935">
<center>:cheers:</center>

[ReSpAwN DeMoN]

40 is big enough but 175!?!?!? :eek:

I have like 2.15? :rolleyes2

[Wiggo]

Well after the "great burn of '01" we sorta went into overdrive when the forums came back online but sadly with the loss of years of content. :smokin:
<center>:cheers:</center>

[ReSpAwN DeMoN]

ya I heard about the burn but I wasn't a member of the forums at that time. I think it was at tweak3d.net that I heard about the servers going up in flames. Cause from my understanding they are both run on the same servers.

[Mr. C]

this is getting more diffucult then I thought. Its just not as easy as it seemed yesterday.

Oh come on now - you had a fine idea, go with it.
We're just throwing suggestions and experiences in the air for you to see. You go for it any ol' way your heart desires.

For me it was a progression, first the blower hooked to a toggle.
Then along came an LED indicator -- yeah, like I couldn't hear the fan running:laugh:
Then as another fan & lights came about a baybus was just a neccesity to clean up the mess inside the case.

Of course, a good plan that is well thought out is hard to beat but there is always a way to incorporate future growth. Hec, a tweaker is never gonna' be 100% satisfied - it just comes with the territory I guess.

[ReSpAwN DeMoN]

never satisfied? I guess that will include me casue I never know how I want the inside of my comp to be all cleaned up. I constnatly redress my cables and I'll take it all apart and put it all back together the way it was when I first started. How much is a bay bus again? That may clean things up a bit.