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From: Ed Levy on 16 Jan 2007 02:54
After many days of serching, I found the official source for replacing
the original fan on my Dell Precision 340. I think this will give you
the official source for replacing all JMC/DATECH fans. My particular
fan was the 9232-12HBTL-2.

I got the official source by finding JMC Products on the web, which is
the manufacturer of these fans.

The official distributer, as of 1/15/2007, is a company called Skyline
Graphics. They only charged me about $16 for the fan and $5 for
shipping so the total came to $21, much cheaper than any other source
I found for fans that I was only hoping would be compatible. The guy
I talked to there was very nice and assured me that the fan would be
compatible, including that the wires would be in the right order on
the plug (which is critical - Dell used a non-standard order for the
wires and if the wires of the fan you get do not match that order, you
have to rearrange them using a pin to take them out and then put them
back in in the correct order). I was concerned about this on the
supposedly compatible NMB fans I found or other fans that were on
eBay, which were more expensive anyway. Maybe it is possible to get a
better fan and have it be compatible, but I felt more comfortable
using the same fan.

I just wanted to pass this along, as it took me a lot of time to find
this information, and I'd like others to have less of a problem.

Regards,
Ed Levy

From: dreamshadow on 16 Jan 2007 02:54
To be honest, my fan just failed yesterday, so I'm going to check this
out. Thanks a lot, you guys.

From: Christopher Muto on 16 Jan 2007 15:09
any reason why you didn't just get the replacement part from dell?

"Ed Levy" <no(a)spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:12qp169hocsep3c(a)news.supernews.com...
> After many days of serching, I found the official source for replacing
> the original fan on my Dell Precision 340. I think this will give you
> the official source for replacing all JMC/DATECH fans. My particular
> fan was the 9232-12HBTL-2.
>
> I got the official source by finding JMC Products on the web, which is
> the manufacturer of these fans.
>
> The official distributer, as of 1/15/2007, is a company called Skyline
> Graphics. They only charged me about $16 for the fan and $5 for
> shipping so the total came to $21, much cheaper than any other source
> I found for fans that I was only hoping would be compatible. The guy
> I talked to there was very nice and assured me that the fan would be
> compatible, including that the wires would be in the right order on
> the plug (which is critical - Dell used a non-standard order for the
> wires and if the wires of the fan you get do not match that order, you
> have to rearrange them using a pin to take them out and then put them
> back in in the correct order). I was concerned about this on the
> supposedly compatible NMB fans I found or other fans that were on
> eBay, which were more expensive anyway. Maybe it is possible to get a
> better fan and have it be compatible, but I felt more comfortable
> using the same fan.
>
> I just wanted to pass this along, as it took me a lot of time to find
> this information, and I'd like others to have less of a problem.
>
> Regards,
> Ed Levy
>


From: S.Lewis on 16 Jan 2007 15:17

"Christopher Muto" <muto(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:8iarh.13863$Ch1.11966(a)trndny04...
> any reason why you didn't just get the replacement part from dell?
>


I'm thinking someone is about to enter rubber grommets hell.


From: Ben Myers on 16 Jan 2007 19:20
It's not THAT bad! I use a very thin and small screwdriver (like the type you
get in a kit from Sears) to gently push the grommet to remove a fan and then
remove the grommets from the fan being replaced. Works quite well. Putting
grommets into a fan and a fan housing is easier. Just insert and pull.

Don't beat up on the grommets too much. They are responsible for the generally
quiet operation of a Dell box. IBM uses them too. Most other companies are
too damned cheap to use grommets... Ben Myers

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 14:17:13 -0600, "S.Lewis" <stew1960(a)mail.com> wrote:

>
>"Christopher Muto" <muto(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:8iarh.13863$Ch1.11966(a)trndny04...
>> any reason why you didn't just get the replacement part from dell?
>>
>
>
>I'm thinking someone is about to enter rubber grommets hell.
>
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