Fans II

Here you can see the first test fitting. Four holes in the front panel and four long bolts and it's looking good. As you can see, Nick has added a cypress grill to both sides of the fan - this was for cosmetic reasons as much as practical. In other words, it keeps the fan cable-free (and finger-free) from both sides, but also it looks cool.



Time to refit the glossy black fan blade - nice! But does it still work? Phew! I mean, of course it does...



The fan chassis needed painting black to match the blades. The question is: how do you let the paint dry when you have to paint something all over? There are many solutions but here was Nick's: suspend them from an uplight using a length of wire. Hey, it worked and he didn't get any primer on the lamp, so who's worried?

The important thing is the result and they came out great.