Disaster Don't stick your fingers in your fan, it might just come off worse!

Decided last night to see how fast my akasa icycle fan was spinning by sticking my finger in. Didn't feel any pain but when I removed my finger it was making a very loud grinding noise. I turned the machine off to investigate and it turns out I took out one of the blades! So now I have had to replace the fan with a very noise 7000rpm Globalwin fan that sounds like a jet engine

 

Let me get this right......................................You tested the speed by inserting your finger! Hmm, Novel approach.....................LOL ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Bummer about the fan though, still, could have been worse. Just don't try it with anything bigger or faster OK!

 

LOL at least your finger didn't come off worse lol

I thought u meant your finger was making a grinding noise

 

oh come on almost everybody sticks their finger in a fan once, and then never do it again. Did the same thing with my old heatsink fan, but I never replaced the fan, kinda got used to the grinding

 

Did a similar thing to try and stop the grinding on my heatsink fan, ended up breaking the blade off. Took the fan entirely apart, superglued the blade back on, and put the fan back together. The fan was quieter than it had been for months!! Then a couple of days ago i accidentally put my finger in it again, and broke the blade off again. Damn cheap plastics!! LoL. I actually cut the tip of my finger that time though! Finally went and got a new fan..

 

Stuck my finger into my 120mm once... didn't hurt... a bit of a shock though (not electric... me)... 2 days later bought a finger guard.

 

You know what they say about sense and feeling....

 

i had put a blowhole/tube going into the pc in my sisters pc and i had the fan going behind it, and being lazy as i am i was putting this reflective stuff on the inside of the tube and i accidently put my finger in the fan, got a big shock and took it out to find that i had a cut at the top of my finger and the flamin fan was fine, couldnt type for a while cause it hurt so much :cries:

 

I had the same thing happen to myself about a week ago. I was installing a Geforce 2 MX card that I got into my lil bro's PC. I was havin problems with it freezin and lockin up, so I thought the card might be runnin hot. Well I stuck my hand on the back of the card and the middle knuckle on my pinkie finger happened to get in the way of the 3700RPM YS Tech fan at the rear of the machine. Those have a really nice way of shaving off the top few layers of skin if your not careful.

 

slightly OT but on the finger front, i managed to get somthing between my finger and finger nail and almost ripped it off while cleaning my car at work lol. was wiping round the center console handbrake area then just round by the edge of drivers seat and then YOUCH! god knows what it was that did it tho lol

 

well i only have one fan within reach, and that is covered, there are the 2 front intakes (lan-Li) that arent covered, but you got the 3 support bars on that side.

But the guard on the rear fan makes an awful buzz, so might get rid of it

 

hmm how odd posted at 19:28 and reckons it was nearer two i posed last post

 

The question that begs to be asked is how many people use fan guards? I don't... probly cause I want something to post about... hehe

 

did it to a blue orb and a 40mm fan for an asus gf3... stupid weak plastic fan blades =/

 

i accidently stuck my finger in my CPU fan while i was adjusting my screwdriver, wich i had put in as a counterweight, because the darn grill aint big enough for the fan. It cut a piece of my finger right off

 

lol i've done a 60mm evercool (on site, bleeding all over the floor) an 80mm mechatronics at home, again bleeding everywhere, a 120mm YS-Tech that took out half the side of my finger, that was at work and a few others less severe. oddly, i've never broken a fan i seem to see a fan and think "mmmmmmm must stick my finger in it..." then outch!

 

I recently got an Antec 80mm tornado for my PAL8045 and was testing how loud it was. I picked it up and set it down and I felt it hit my finger but didnt think much of it. Next thing i knew, I had to scrub blood out of the carpet!

Oh well....that'll teach me wont it

 

i had a dream last night that i had to glue on someone elses fingertip so i could go do something. i never knew where mine was to begin with or why i lost it (so what if i have vague dreams).

im planning to build a pc for mommy soon, maybe the dream was a warning that i should just let her buy a prefab. at any rate, i'll stay out of mine for a few days. safety first, you know?

 

What the heck?!? You guys do this on accident. I have a Delta Screamer on my desk for my personal cooling (no AC =\) so when I get bored I crank up the old RPMs and just shove my finger in there... sure it hurt... for a while, but now I am pretty much numb ot it. *yes, i have issues, thank you for noticing =)*

 

least you didnt stick your finger in a 17V metal bladed panaflow like moi