Picture showing the ventirad dissasembled from the open laptop

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   ⠴Ninjatrappeur⠦ (ninjatrappeur@social.alternativebit.fr)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Oct-2022 04:57:05 JST ⠴Ninjatrappeur⠦
   My laptop is a secondhand thinkpad 2015 x250. It's overall nice but it start to show its age.
   
   Last month, the fan started to make some rattling noises. Waiting did not fix the issue. Quite the contrary: the rattling noises intensified. Last week, the laptop started to poweroff under load. It seemed like the fan was getting stuck at times, it was the end of this ventirad.
   
   Sadly for me, the NixCon starts on Thursday: I clearly need a laptop there.
   
   Out of despair, I tried to dissasemble the ventirad this evening.
   
   I started cleaning the ventilator, its axis and the stator's axis with some isopropyl alchool and q-tips. I then lubed the stator axis using some bike teflon lubricant and a small needle to dispose some tiny drops in the stator.
   
   I re-assembled everything and started the laptop: no more rattling noises, just a smooth fan sound. After loading the CPU a fair bit: it stays below 60°C.
   
   I'm had very little hope on that one, especially provided I screwed up during the dissasembly and badly bent the whole ventirad assembly ?
   
   That's a win ????