I wonder how many RPM a 3d printed part can handle before fragging your mobo.
I’ve snapped a bunch of fins off noctua fans and honestly a 3d printed fan with fiber reinforced filament would probably be fine.
I love this.
Sure we don’t necessarily have the machinery that’s capable producing these with the fault tolerance that we’d want… yet? But it helps preserve a lot of engineering and research work that’s already been put into it so far.
Somebody will definitely find some creative applications for these down the road and I’m all for it.
I have zero experience with 3d printing, but I’m dubious that a printed fan would be as smooth and balanced as you’d need for an efficient quiet fan without some serious/laborious post printing refinement.
Ready to be educated.
Edit: I realize that doing it because you can is entirely valid, I’m more interested in what the process would be.
Which is why they don’t mind releasing the models.
With resin printing, you can definitely get a nice clean fan blade easily.
Nawk-tuah™ Fan on that thang
Nice. I was just wondering if I could get a replacement fan for my 13-year-old cooler if one failed. This would be a fun alternative to explore.
