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Step 3Cut fan standoffs
This is a nice little trick I cooked up. I needed fan standoffs and had nothing. Or so I thought.
Take some cheap acid flux brushes and cut 1 inch pieces from them. These brushes are everywhere. Harbor Freight sells a whole bag for 99 cents. Any plumbing supply/home improvement store has them.
If you don't have them, use an old golf club shaft.
Or cut some thin copper tubing off a refrigerator compressor.
Anything that fits over the long fan screws like a sleeve.
When cutting thin tubing take a hacksaw and reverse the blade so the teeth are pointing back at you. See pic 2. Slide the hacksaw forward VERY light at first. Maybe do only forward motions with it.
This tubing snags the blade very easily.
Or take a Dremel and slice the tubes right off. A Dremel cutting wheel makes extremely clean and smooth cuts.
Make 4 small 1 inch tubes. Now you have fan standoffs!
Take some cheap acid flux brushes and cut 1 inch pieces from them. These brushes are everywhere. Harbor Freight sells a whole bag for 99 cents. Any plumbing supply/home improvement store has them.
If you don't have them, use an old golf club shaft.
Or cut some thin copper tubing off a refrigerator compressor.
Anything that fits over the long fan screws like a sleeve.
When cutting thin tubing take a hacksaw and reverse the blade so the teeth are pointing back at you. See pic 2. Slide the hacksaw forward VERY light at first. Maybe do only forward motions with it.
This tubing snags the blade very easily.
Or take a Dremel and slice the tubes right off. A Dremel cutting wheel makes extremely clean and smooth cuts.
Make 4 small 1 inch tubes. Now you have fan standoffs!
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