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As many here know, "the Duck" is obsessive about ducting as a strategy for cooling and case-mods. I expect I will carry the obsession with me when I finally, belatedly embrace water-cooling of any sort.
And as you also may know, I embrace foam art-board as a marvelous material for those purposes. I may use Lexan plastic for the bling and visibility, but art board is solid, non-conductive, easy to cut and work.
More generally, I'm always looking for ways to attenuate fan and HDD noise within the case. I try to make home-built "shock-absorber" mounts for fans, whenever a commercially-available rubber fan-mount won't do.
Sometimes I use nylon wire-ties to secure fans. They're cheap; they come in various colors. If you use black ones, the protruding buckle of a wire tie on a case side-panel is nearly invisible -- for a black case, that is.
Today I was reassessing my use of wire ties with little rubber donuts to make noise-isolating sidepanel fan mounts. I realized for my purposes that I'd like to replace them with something better. And I've used nylon screws and nuts often to secure art-board covers for case vents I want to block.
I'd only been able to find these nylon screws and nuts at a local electronics "jobber" warehouse located all the way over on the other side of town in the industrial district. Last time I visited, they didn't have what I want.
So today, I did a web-search, and found the same items from a company not that far from my domicile:
http://www.fastener-express.com/
Too bad I can't find the 6-32 screws and nuts in black, but the white ones will still do.
Thought some folks might find this useful. Cheap stuff, too! A box of 50 or 100 for between $2 and $5.
And as you also may know, I embrace foam art-board as a marvelous material for those purposes. I may use Lexan plastic for the bling and visibility, but art board is solid, non-conductive, easy to cut and work.
More generally, I'm always looking for ways to attenuate fan and HDD noise within the case. I try to make home-built "shock-absorber" mounts for fans, whenever a commercially-available rubber fan-mount won't do.
Sometimes I use nylon wire-ties to secure fans. They're cheap; they come in various colors. If you use black ones, the protruding buckle of a wire tie on a case side-panel is nearly invisible -- for a black case, that is.
Today I was reassessing my use of wire ties with little rubber donuts to make noise-isolating sidepanel fan mounts. I realized for my purposes that I'd like to replace them with something better. And I've used nylon screws and nuts often to secure art-board covers for case vents I want to block.
I'd only been able to find these nylon screws and nuts at a local electronics "jobber" warehouse located all the way over on the other side of town in the industrial district. Last time I visited, they didn't have what I want.
So today, I did a web-search, and found the same items from a company not that far from my domicile:
http://www.fastener-express.com/
Too bad I can't find the 6-32 screws and nuts in black, but the white ones will still do.
Thought some folks might find this useful. Cheap stuff, too! A box of 50 or 100 for between $2 and $5.