[Gllug] Free: SCSI CDRom drives, plus caddy drives

Chris Bell chrisbell at 3966.ukfsn.org
Tue Sep 29 22:02:22 UTC 2009


On Tue 29 Sep, Nix wrote:
> 

> 
> (Though it's intermittently impressive to me that anything with bearings
> that small in it works at all.)

   Cheapo fans have sintered bearings, just highly compressed powder, filled
"for life" with oil or grease, and the idea is that there should be
lubricant to metal contact, not metal to metal. Unfortunately the lubricant
does dry out.

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