give me some ideas of what material to make a fan duct out of

[dpopiz]

I want to make a square-crossection duct that curves 90deg from my cpu fan to the rear 80mm fan grill. have any ideas of some material I could make it out of?

 

[amdskip]

Thin sheet metal using a hand bender.

Cardboard that is thin covered in duct tape <---- me likes this because duct tape rulz!

 

[SinfulWeeper]

Just buy a 90° PVC elbow from any plumbing store, that way everything stays circular. If you want square... just use cardboard from a empty case of beer and get it to fit both the square fan housing and circular PVC elbow.

 

[beatle]

I just made a right angle bend (not enclosed) out of thin cardboard from my box of slippers I bought this weekend. I attached it with clear packing tape. Does your heatsink suck or blow? Mine sucks. (Alpha 8045)

 

[dpopiz]

Mine sucks.

hehe nice one.

well, I really would like to make it curved from the hsf to the rear 80mm, as opposed to a 90deg angle

 

[Confused]

Anything so long as it involves Duct Tape.


As i've always said

Duct Tape is like The Force. It has a Light side and a Dark side, and holds the Universe together



Confused

 

[FlowerMan]

PVC elbows, plexiglass, cardboard, aluminum flashing, etc... the possibilities are endless

 

[Dannnn]

Originally posted by: beatle
I just made a right angle bend (not enclosed) out of thin cardboard from my box of slippers I bought this weekend. I attached it with clear packing tape. Does your heatsink suck or blow? Mine sucks. (Alpha 8045)

So your duct leads from the Alpha to a blowhole with a fan pushing the air from the Alpha out of the case? Do you then have the other case fan sucking air in? (am about to setup a similar system in a Coolermaster 210 case, i.e. two case fans only)

 

[Blain]

The best tape to use is "Foil Duct Tape". It will hold a fan on a heatsink, seal case holes, etc... And not leave a nasty sticky mess when you remove it.

 

[Jon187]

Use that foam paper stuff you can buy from any dollar store or arts and crafts store. Comes in great colors and is easy to handle. Staple it together or use rubber cement.

Jon...

 

[farmercal]

If you are close to a Home Depot or Lowes you check out some bendable dryer exhaust material. I think it comes in metal or plastic varieties and might serve your purpose. I don't know what sizes them come in but there might be more than one.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: Confused
Anything so long as it involves Duct Tape.


As i've always said

Duct Tape is like The Force. It has a Light side and a Dark side, and holds the Universe together

My quote: If you can't fix it with duct tape and a hammer, it can't be fixed.

Use the foil duct tape for this particular purpose. It holds a fixed shape without support better.

 

[jarsoffart]

Nothing is ever broke; it just needs duct tape.

I would just use cardboard. You don't even have to leave the house. Just make the bend curved. Every side doesn't need to be curved.

 

[lookin4dlz]

This is what I bought:
3 inch X 10 ft Stnd Sewer Flexible Hose by Lambro Industries - $3.56

I have it running inside my case from my CPU HS to a case intake fan & another length outside my case from my PSU to take the exhaust away from the case. I may run another section from another case fan to blow directly on my hard drives - will probably fashion some sort of diffuser on the end that blows on the hard drives to spread the effect out.