Rubber Screws for Fan Mounts

[Penth]

I've got a few Antec Sonatas in my LAN and I'm just about to put some new 120mm fans in, the problem is that I need more of the rubber screws that Antec includes. Is there anywhere to buy them?

 

[Mucker]

Here: http://www.siliconacoustics.com/fanisolators1.html or from Antec. Read below.

I bought a Super Lanboy recently and needed spares. Antec sells them as spare parts as seen here: http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=30030 However, they wanted $8 to ship these. I wrote Antec cust. serv and complained, and they sent me 8 for free 🙂 If you take a very small screw driver, you can remove them by carefully pushing them back through. After I saw the price of shipping I treat them like gold now..........

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[Painman]

Alternatively, go to Radio Shack and buy a bag of assorted rubber grommets for $1.99, put the smaller ones into the fan mounting holes in the case, then use some small gauge machine screws, washers and nuts to mount the fan. Voila, you can mount and switch fans as you please without needing additional hardware.

 

[Mucker]

The beauty of ALL rubber grommets is that virtually all vibration is eliminated. Metal screws still have the potential to contact the hole area and cause vibration, that is unless the screws are of smaller diameter than the hole they are going through and are exactly centered as not to come in contact with the hole edges.

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[VirtualLarry]

I'm a cheap bastard. I just take that thin sheet of pink foam that most mobos come on, and cut/fold that to make some foam isolation-mounts. Yeah, if you're one of those people that has windows and lights and stuff, having bits of pink-colored foam all around may not be for you, but I've found that it works pretty decently to cut down on case fan (and PSU!) vibration, and at effectively zero cost. (Use a few plastic-covered wire twist-ties to secure the foam if you need to, I save the ones that come with my components. You can poke them through the foam easily if need be.)