Broken Fan Blade + LocTite = Safe???

Darg · 1 Oct 2007 at 17:49

I ordered 4 yate loon 120mm fans from america a while back. 2 of them arrived with one blade each broken off. The seller was fantastic and refunded me half the cost of the shipment immediately. It's a shame to let such fantastic fans go to waste though so I was wondering if it's possible to glue a blade back on without it flying off when it's put up to full speed.

Has anyone done this successfully before? Obviously fan blade + speed + computer bits =

so I'd like to avoid that.

BFG_9000 · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:01

Buy new fans, not worth the risk considering on how cheap 120mm fans are to buy... :cool:

C64 · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:05

Why from america can i ask? they are available brand new and quite cheap over here.

PhillyDee · 1 Oct 2007 at 18:41

Not worth it. It would be noisey as hell, suck more power, fail earlier, all because of the imbalance in the blades.

jim_e · 1 Oct 2007 at 19:24

Why not give it a go and see?

I doubt that a little bit of plastic flying off would even escape the fan cage thing and even then, what could it do?

Will be interested to see how it works glued together/ with one blade missing

V|per · 1 Oct 2007 at 22:01

jim_e said:
I doubt that a little bit of plastic flying off would even escape the fan cage thing and even then, what could it do?

Fly off, and knock a resistor off the gfx/mobo killing it instantly...

4T5 · 1 Oct 2007 at 22:07

Just break a Blade off on the opposite side & use it.

PhillyDee · 1 Oct 2007 at 22:38

malc30 said:
Just break a Blade off on the opposite side & use it.

Shame most of them have an odd number of baldes . . .

Darg · 1 Oct 2007 at 22:46

C64 said:
Why from america can i ask? they are available brand new and quite cheap over here.

Got them cheap off the bay. Would have cost me as much to get them from an english shop when postage is involved.

I'll give them a go but maybe stretch some material as a cover over it just in case.

Bar · 2 Oct 2007 at 20:33

fans are precisely balanced pieces of kit - glue will upset the balance and it will make a hell of a racket - just not worth it.

Darg · 2 Oct 2007 at 21:55

Thanks for the input guys. I'll give it a try and see what happens. If it's too loud or dodgy then I'll leave it.