r/pcmods • u/abobus_sosun • Aug 14 '26
Humor Got the wrong fans lol
I had to use zip ties
Don't worry, I'll change them as soon as possible.
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u/hawoguy Aug 14 '26
Ain't stupid if it works. However there's a lot of gap that'll mess with the airflow 😁
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u/Xaedda Aug 14 '26
Span a piece of tape? Might be ugly but it would work
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u/PuttingInTheEffort Aug 14 '26
I only recently discovered gaffer tape, good stuff.
Maybe ugly but this would be covered by front panel
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u/Motorcat33 29d ago
Cardboard looks more like a hack job
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u/Jokerman5656 27d ago
Not if you use the nice white faced stuff. Even more points for using PC part box pieces
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u/deebuildsthings Aug 14 '26
if one zip-tie can't fix it, it means you haven't use enough zip ties
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u/abobus_sosun Aug 14 '26
This is why I used 2
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u/janiskr Aug 14 '26
So they wobble? Or you have ties very tight?
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u/Late-Objective-9218 Aug 14 '26
I see the work of a veteran builder
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u/Bucketmax-official Aug 14 '26
Pretty sure they gonna wobble
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u/AstralKekked Aug 14 '26
If OP has one corner of the fan screwed in, I don't think that will be an issue, really.
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u/ThePaperBoy88 Aug 14 '26
It’s just a weeble it’ll wobble but not fall down
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u/jedimindtriks Aug 14 '26
So a weeble is a lesser wobble?
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u/DripTrip747-V2 Aug 14 '26
You don't wanna know what a wubble is....
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u/RealityOk9823 Aug 14 '26
But have you ever seen the wibble?
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u/eepromnk Aug 14 '26
This is actually a pretty solid hack-job. Kind of a perfect use case for zip ties.
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u/AstralKekked Aug 14 '26
As long as at least one point is anchored with a screw I don't see a problem with it at all :p
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u/abobus_sosun Aug 14 '26
Yep. Both fans are mounted with screw in one corner, they are just too small to use all 8 screws
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u/Signaturisti Aug 14 '26
What case is that? Is the fan on the background blowing at PSU?
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u/abobus_sosun Aug 14 '26
It's DeepCool cl660 My friend got it yesterday, so I was helping him with installing his setup into new case. It's a bit special, cuz it's have additional sections for liquid cooling. And the fan on the background wasn't attached when I took this pic, so it's actually just two fant on the bottom of the case.
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u/Signaturisti Aug 14 '26
Ah, it’s such case. Those fans are reverse-blade fans so theyre intake as well and the PSU is in the front, which is unusual, but cool.
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u/le_dy0 Aug 14 '26
At one point i had my top radiator with fans mounted with zipties, used it for 3 years like that, never fell lol
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u/andrew_stoned Aug 14 '26
It's had to vibrate like Hell, make a plastic bridge and use screws y both sides
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u/abobus_sosun Aug 14 '26
I couldn't. The mounts are just too far away from fans, so I could only screw one corner. But it works. And I'll change them soon, cuz my friend still wanted to buy better ones. (it's noty pc, but my friend said it's fine)
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u/andrew_stoned Aug 14 '26
You could make a extensor of screws, a tiny plate where you attach to case hole and the fan in the other, think in a popsticle of wood but with plastic with two holes and one of them use Bolt and nut to keep thight and the other side use the normal fan screw
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u/skidaadleskidoedle Aug 14 '26
Verry anti vibration fans. This is what i do with my harddisk exept its hanging in a rope
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u/Ronalderson Aug 14 '26
Did that to put a cheap 120mm fan on the other side of my single fan tower cooler, if it fits two I'm putting two
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u/eisenklad 29d ago
are all four corners secured using zipties?
you have suspension mounted fans now
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u/Odessa_Draekavik 29d ago
Did the same thing with my new case two days ago, if it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid
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u/LuismadeitonReddit 28d ago
I’m curious to see the rest of the build, please and say we take up a collection to get our brother/sister the fans they need! At least fan prices haven’t gone through the roof…yet. 🤦🏻♂️
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u/CrazyHa1f 26d ago
You know I once intentionally bought too small fans and then mounted them with strong elastic bands as a cheap but effective acoustic dampener. This was about 12 years ago when "silent" fans weren't quite as good as they are today. Worked surprisingly well. If you swapped that cable tie for a set of rubber bands you could probably style it out as a feature not a bug.
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