Replace Vaio combo drive laser unit

**Platypus** · November 16th, 2007, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by HipHoper

Can someone please tell me how do you call this type of fans that blows air from the side and not from top or buttom ?

Could be called tangential fan or crossflow...

**HipHoper** · November 17th, 2007, 02:04 AM

Thanks Plat.
I trried the description on ebay, But only found big ones.
I mean fans like this :
http://fish72.googlepages.com/3663_1_b.jpg

notice that the blades are not regular blades, In order to blow the air to the side....

I've also thought of :
Blower fan
Centrifugal fan

But the one's that I found are bigger in size

**NooNoo** · November 17th, 2007, 04:54 AM

Is there a part number on the old fan? If you google that, you may get the part description back?

**HipHoper** · November 17th, 2007, 05:04 AM

It's Toshiba mcf-505pam05, And from the description I've found it's an custom made 5V fan made specially for this Vaio computer.
If my client will let me have the computer I thoght about 2 cheaper-than-original solution.
1. Open the laptop completely and replace the original fan with a bit smaller one with same voltage properties (There is a tin cover on the original fan, And I believe I can unmount it forcefully
2. Open the back case cover and buy a multi-fan cooler that the laptop will sit on, That way the cooling will be even better than original, But I guess I'll stop calling this computer a laptop...More like a mini desktop....

**NooNoo** · November 17th, 2007, 05:10 AM

Or get a refurbished one

**HipHoper** · November 17th, 2007, 05:14 AM

Noo....Don't you know i'm cheap ? to pay almost 100$ (including shipping to israel) for a rufurbished fan ?
Thanks anyway for the link.
I am using this vaio as a test to my combination ability more than anything else...I am sure I can get a similiar or even better new fan to work for 10$ If i'll put my time and effort into it.

**CCT** · November 17th, 2007, 08:07 AM

http://www.teifans.com/

http://www.laptops4me.com/newsdesk_i...sdesk_id/6?SID

**HipHoper** · November 17th, 2007, 08:22 AM

Thanks again for the links CCT.
Although the first link contain versatile amount of fans and specs they are 12V :O(
BUT....The second link "woke" an idea....i'll buy some brand name hard disk cooler here in israel for about 14$, which contains 2X50mm slim fans, And I'll have even a spare one. That will be the best solution once I'll get the green light...
On second thought...They are 12V too...
I guess these will fit my needs :

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=019

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWA:IT&ih=013

The 2nd one seems cheap and reliable, Just hope to fit it in....
So thanks for the ignition...wroom wrooom...

**NooNoo** · November 17th, 2007, 08:26 AM

Originally Posted by HipHoper

Noo....Don't you know i'm cheap ? to pay almost 100$ (including shipping to israel) for a rufurbished fan ?
Thanks anyway for the link.

I know you are cheap

however, I was just showing you it was possible, I was hoping you would take those numbers and look up sites more local to you. I know there are some good sites where you are, but my hebrew sucks.

**HipHoper** · November 17th, 2007, 08:31 AM

Lol @ Noo Hebrew.....
Because of customs and stuff, Parts are usually expensive in israel. I am talking about parts like fans and connectors, Not parts that are sold as OEM (memory, cpu, drives).
I buy from time to time lots of small things like chipset fans and Network plugs from ebay, Since the price is sometimes 1/3-1/4 of the price here...And usually what I bring is of better quality...

**NooNoo** · November 17th, 2007, 08:40 AM

Sounds like a business opportunity to me - no one does refurbished parts in Israel?

**HipHoper** · November 17th, 2007, 08:47 AM

There was a big company few years ago that dealt with refurb. computers and stuff, but they filed chapter 11 (Good for me that they pay me few bucks they owed me before that...).
Anyway, Now there are the official IBM/Dell/HP/More support, But their prices are quite high when your computer goes out of warranty.
So it's not that you can't fix computers, But it's expensive.
Now, There are a lot of small companies that fix laptops, But I would question most of their professionality.
Some products does not even have an official support (I think Vaio is one of them.....).
I don't know anyone who sells refurbished laptop parts for a reasonable price. I guess that most parts are imported, Therefore explaining their rareability/High price.
As I see it the laptop market is not fully developed here, But as prices drop (you can get a Lenovo C100 for about 600$ + tax), I guess we'll start to see more moshrooms (Who said MARIO ?) after the rain...