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Re: [TenTec] Lubricating Orion II Heat Sink Fan

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] Lubricating Orion II Heat Sink Fan
From: Byron Cordes via TenTec <tentec@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:35:46 -0500
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Can’t help but laugh. Hihi  sealed none lubricant bearing will normally outlast 
 lubricant bearings . Lubricant bearing is abuse with either to little or even 
worst to much lubricant. 
  We ask a lot from that little  muffin fan  when it squeals it’s saying my 
time is over, it’s been good but let me go!
 You could change the bearing , but a new super quiet fan is $30 . A new 
bearing ,  shipping will probably cost more than the bearing. Add a hour of 
time to the repair . The new one looks like a bargain .
  It’s raining here so I have some free time. Maybe I should order a bearing 
for my muff fan and next time it starts to rain and I don’t have much to do I 
can replace that bearing before it starts to squeal.                         
Preventive Maintenance 
73s AC9PA Byron 

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> On Jul 15, 2019, at 12:13 PM, Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> You’re right, on all counts, of course! Especially since the vast majority of 
> people will never keep whatever it helps cool long enough to wear out the 
> bearings. If they do keep it that long, they’ll simply replace it, anyway 
> because it takes less time and effort...
> 
> Kim N5OP
> 
> "People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the 
> music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
> 
>> On Jul 15, 2019, at 9:36 AM, Michael Tortorella via TenTec 
>> <tentec@contesting.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I can't help inserting 2 cents here.  The fan manufacturers make tens of
>> millions, maybe hundreds of millions of these, and they are not going to add
>> even a penny of cost to each one if they can possibly avoid it.  And they
>> can avoid it by not putting in a zerk fitting that would, among other
>> things, ruin their replacement business.  In a way, it's perverse and an
>> abuse of Earth's finite resources, but that is the way we seem to have
>> chosen to organize our economy.  This probably bears more rational thought
>> and discussion but I'll leave it here for now.
>> 73, 
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