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

meh... i think i beat everyone of us and our adventures with fans... onto pallets full of concrete mix =) Had some genious forklift operator set one down on my foot :cries: :cries: Everything seemed to be ok, yeah it hurt ALOT, but nothign seemed broken. I thought it was about 2000lbs of concrete there. And after that happened I had to continue to load it onto the truck =( Turns out when I get home the gross weight of the pallet *according to the packing list* was 3,400lbs all on my foot OW!

Fans are fun, pallets.... they are not!

 

first i did it on my original AMD tbird cooler, and broke the blade (and took a chunk outa my finger). This was a 5v fan running @ 12v, and it spun so fast that if i left the fan on im sure it would have shaken the heatsink and chipped the CPU (thats another story, ive broken 2), i took off 2 whole blades!

then i did it on my vid cards 40mm fan, and didnt notice for a while!

then with my Super Orb which i got to replace the last broken one, i broke the top fan, so being so tall it made the whole thing vibrate running it.

So i got a Blue orb for the vid card. And lo and behold, it got the finger treatment also , so i got a new blue orb for it.

So then, to combat my bad habbit for stopping fans with my fingers, i got watercooling, with a beasty 240v metal bladed 120mm fan from papst. and i would like to state, this thing hurts like **** if it hits your fingers, and it could break them if you tried hard enough.

 

I read through this post thinking "nah, my case is fine... I'd never be silly enough to hit the fan"...

Two minutes later, I was adjusting my CD-ROM, and brushed the spinning case fan with my knuckle. Must have jumped about a foot in the air, but fortunately I'd just hit the smooth middle bit.

Still, it's easily done!

 

One word: fanguard. Or is it two? Too tired to care. I think after the first accident, you would have started putting fanguards on every fan in the system.

Glutton for punishment.

 

Ive purposely stuck my finger in loads of fans, but when you do it by accident, you dont half get a shock! lol.

.icecube

 

Doee something similar, with a screw driver and a thermal take Volcano II, the worst cooler in history, it couldn't keep my old T bird 900 cool in a force 10 gale!!

 

Did that hurt by any chance?
(putting your finger in a 17v Panaflow)

 

Try putting yer finger in one of These:

from Big Fan
I've got 2 in my system and YES i'm using custom made fan grill for 'em.
NO way I'm putting me leeeetle finger in them.

 

hmmm, that'd be good for chopping carrots.

 

I had something like that happen with a Pentium 3 fan.

 

Funy: did you also stick your nose into a fan?

It is not dangerous to stick your fingers in a fan if you do it from the right angle to the fan blades. Then your finger will just jump around in there. No harm done. I had to check if the PSU fan in my computer was running a couple of hours ago. Being smart as I am, I just jammed a wire in it.

 

on the first day i got my athlon i accidently stuck my finger in the fan when i was moving some cables around....those stock fans are sharp as hell! i lost a blade and a small peice of my finger

 

Finger in fan???

I have tested my fans pretty much the same way except I usually touch the very center of the fan and I don't touch the fan blades.

If it is spinning I can feel it without the pain of braking the blade or hurting my finger.

Brian

 

Good thing you don't work on planes. Might want to stick your finger in the spinning turbine, to see how fast it's going and all. Although I think the turbine will be fine, you may not be though .

 

I have fanguards everywhere. I couldn't put a 92mm fanguard on my 92mm tornado cuz the slk-900's fan clip got in the way, so I hot glued an 80mm fan grill on... I dunno, I guess I just value my fingers. plus the fact that I got more fan grills than I wanted when I ordered a few... (hey! I didnt know they came in packs of two, alright?!)

 

I decided one day to pick off some dust/crap on the heatsink of my Taisol, and in doing so (the PC was on at this time) accidentally stuck my finger in the stock fan shattering a blade in the process. It split my finger nail up the middle, and I can tell you that hurt. Had to replace with sum old stock fan from an old heatsink I had lying around, the thing is though the temps are just the same!

 

I got an 80mm Sunbeam fan yesterday. It runs at about 3000 RPM. During the mounting process, I got my fingers in it all the time, but I never got hurt. How do you do it?

 

80mils are usually fine, as the blades are quite thick. If you wanna see if u can do it try it with a 40 mil or slimline 60mil

 

I've been running a 24v 120mm fan pointed right at the open sife of my old comptuer for a while, trying to jeep things cool. I also have the mouse/keyboard right next to it as well. I kept moving the mouse, and getting a few fingers caught in the fan!

I soon did a gheto internal job

 

Hmmm.... I was working on my computer today, and while not looking, I got my finger in the CPU fan. Ouch! Well, luckily my finger nail protected the finger. Glad I didn't hold my finger the other way around... Ok. Now I know what you guys mean.