Best Method of Opening up "closed corners" of diff

Tad G · Post by **Tad G** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 6:16 am

Some fans have open corners, which makes mounting them with EAR fan isolators very easy.

Other brands of fans, like Globe, and Nexus for example, have closed corners . Cutting away the "tube" to open up the corners in a nice professional-looking manner, to facilitate using the EAR mounts is best done, how? Razor blade? Utility knife? Coping saw? Hacksaw ?

Ideas/thoughts please?

greeef · Post by **greeef** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 6:45 am

i used a coping saw when i last decided to hack up fans, a very small jewelers one.

fetaost · Post by **fetaost** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:48 am

I wonder if the "closed corners" on Nexus fans has any purpose, like preventing vibration. Does anyone know?

hvengel · Post by **hvengel** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 2:21 pm

The Dremal tool is the moder friend. I would think that a cut off wheel would make short work of this.

DryFire · Post by **DryFire** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 3:22 pm

drill the holes with a small drill bit?

Straker · Post by **Straker** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 12:11 am

i'd just use a hacksaw or something smaller that's serrated and use a file/razor to clean up the outside/inside edges of the holes real quick if needed... really easy to melt plastic with power tools (esp with a rotary tool, high rpm) and kinda overkill anyways. i really like Lance disposable scalpels (#11 blade) for everything you'd use a razor/utility knife for, but those obviously aren't serrated so they're useless for hard stuff.