[LargeFormat] CLS 301 cooling advice needed

[Alex Le Heux]

>   If this is one of the common plastic case blowers found in
> electronic equipment they can often be oiled by using a
> syrenge. There is usually a rubber diaphragm under the label
> which seals off the bearing. By poking through it one can
> inject a little light machine oil which will get the bearing
> going again. Most of these fans have "Oilite" bearings.
> These are made of sintered bronze which is vacuum
> impregnated with a fairly heavy oil. They are supposed to be
> "lifetime" lubricated. "Lifetime" probably being defined as
> whenever the oil runs out.

The fans are large, 60 W 220 Volt radial jobbies...

But, injecting it with WD40 did bring it back to life, at least for now.
By the sound and look of it, it will soon go to that windy place in the sky
where burnt out fans go... So some solution needs to be found...

Cheerio,

Alex


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