never had any experience with those expensive thing... hehehe... dun dare to comment...

Compressed air.... give it a blow job.

Blow Job???
That sounds cool, must be smooth and easy as well...

I think what sniper means is, using an air gun. That should be sufficient to blow off whatever dust which is trapped between any of those fins.

really good info i may try it on my thermaltake casing fan thanks

crazyboysrs, keep a log of the lifespan of your fans.
very good idea.do you shake the fan in the pail of water to futher remove dirt or just drop in the pail and leave it alone?

how to clean laptop fan ?

That's quite hard, and very tricky.
If you ain't got the guts and you don't know how to do it, pass it to the professionals, or else, you might get a faulty notebook.

If you want, you can pass it to me, i'll do it for you.
PM me to discuss about it.

u better figure out how to take the fan out of ur lappie at 1st... most lappie use blower type of fan which is hard to re-grease after u clean them..

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Added on May 10, 2007, 2:06 pmyah... u can shake it a bit, it'll help to clean it faster... juz remember to clean out the detergent water with plain water after cleaning them... the let them dry b4 regrease... it should last for a long time...

This post has been edited by HaHaNoCluE: May 10 2007, 02:06 PM

i did try this method on my stock 478 HSF and the fan stop working after i use the water cleaning method, sad.

huh??? did u clean it properly??? i mean u can juz dip it in water n shake it a bit, the dirt n old grease nid time to come off out from the motor... n u nid to regrease it... use ur finger to gif it (rotor fan) a few turn to distribute the new lube/grease in the motor... gud luck...

I'm trying this method on my faulty fans. It not enough power to spin fast in the water, i guess have to leave it there for long time.

Cotton bud to clean heatsink? I use this method to clean off my dust on the heatsink area as i am lazy to remove the CPU fan.Thus it's more easy and faster by this way.

This post has been edited by raymond5105: Jun 4 2007, 06:55 PM

Now i'm the same victim with ya....

guys, r u guys trying to run the fans while they r in the water???

leave it in the water wor, but dun run it... once u try running it while in water the fan will die...

i got a 40mm fan which i can't help lar... but dat 1 becoz it has been running for a few years never clean, i guess the motor reach it's age...

I think I really misunderstanding ah....end up done stupid things.
Yes i did run it while it was in water, at beginning it was ok, after few hours it dead.

Anyway, waving around the fan in water I think much better after few hours dip in water would have better results.

Plan to gorek another dummy for testing.

i use painting brush to clean my fan...the result is ok...can get back the 200-500 rpm...normally i use 1/2 inch brush...

this cleaning method is risky.. the motor inside baldi... make sure is dry then can plug in mobo to run... else faulty =)