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Hey.

 

Anyone know the the brown bits can be removed and painted?

 

I understand these fans are very good but the colour scheme is off putting to me.

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They are made out of rubber, You wont be painting them and have it look good.

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You can remove them, whether you want to paint them is another matter. 

 

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They can be removed. Most paints will flake though.

 

Try removing them and mounting by the method of rubber screw replacements. Does the same job.

 

If your mounting in a fashion that will cause the fan to make contact with something metal, use a foam fan isolation gromet that runs the entire outside of the fan.

 

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They can be taken off, they just have pins that stick through the plastic housing. Thing is, those noise dampers are made our of rubber, so painting would do them no good.

 

EDIT: Don't Noctua fans come with adhesive rubber strips for noise damping? They were provided with my CPU cooler and I also used them on some case fans.

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Unless you paint them with Palstidip (rubber paint) then it's not gonna turn out well. Just buy a normal Noctua fan and pull out the motor/blades. Then go DIY and spray paint it. These industrial fans are damn loud.

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They can be taken off, they just have pins that stick through the plastic housing. Thing is, those noise dampers are made our of rubber, so painting would do them no good.

 

Yeah if they are rubber that wont work. I want to add sort some of white into it. (Black & White theme).

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Unless you paint them with Palstidip (rubber paint) then it's not gonna turn out well. Just buy a normal Noctua fan and pull out the motor/blades. Then go DIY and spray paint it. These industrial fans are damn loud.

 

Sounds like a good idea. How easy is that to do?

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Sounds like a good idea. How easy is that to do?

Dont know; never have tried it :P

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Sounds like a good idea. How easy is that to do?

 

You need to be able to properly use a spraycan or have some compressor with paint attachment. Any dripping or uneven spread of paint leads to imbalance in the blade and create extra noise and wear.

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As far as I know, the rubber parts are only used for noise dampening.  They could be removed entirely, but your machine will be loud.  Someone mentioned the rubber screw replacements, and I believe that is your best bet.

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You need to be able to properly use a spraycan or have some compressor with paint attachment. Any dripping or uneven spread of paint leads to imbalance in the blade and create extra noise and wear.

 

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EDIT: Don't Noctua fans come with adhesive rubber strips for noise damping? They were provided with my CPU cooler and I also used them on some case fans.

The strips are for heatsinks and aren't relevant for the fans with rubber corners. 

They could be removed entirely, but your machine will be loud.  

Noctuas don't vibrate that much--the rubber corners shouldn't make the difference between quiet and loud. 

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