Does anyone know where I could acquire a large fan? I've been trying to think of ways to fill my summer, and drew up some plans for a warehouse-type mod. I thought it might be really cool to replace a wall or almost a whole wall with a huge fan (purely for decoration, of course...though it COULD produce a nice breeze at a couple hundred RPM ), I was thinking of spinning it at ~50-100 RPM. Anyway, the size I'm looking for is at least 18", if I decided to mod a server, I could go for ~25" and do fun things with the inside as well.

They wouldn't have to look nice, in fact I'd prefer just bare steel. I plan on checking local hardware places (Home Depot etc.).

I would just build the fan myself, as constructing or finding a suitable motor wouldn't be challenging, but I don't have the tools or know-how to cut and bend steel

TIA,
Jeff

Check out car stores. They have plenty of large high airflow fans for radiators and the like.

Brandon Cisneros

http://www.bigassfans.com/ dose your warehouse need a helicopter? otherwise a parts supplier like http://www.alliedelec.com has a huge selection with spec sheets includeing SPL and CFM ratings

ok at work we have some four foot fans that run off 120 standard circut but all are belt driven

lol NICE carbon...I've changed my mind, this is now a hovercraft mod, the first computer that you can ride over lakes!

I have a few large high velocity fans I use for work to speed dry times for spackle and paint and whatever. The ones I have are made by Patton. They're the best I've found and are pretty quiet for the aount of air they move. You can find them at other places but heres a link so you can see some of them: http://www.nextag.com/Patton_Fans~27...36ozmainz5-htm

I say....Go to walmart and buy a bigass box fan and take it out of the case and mount it to a piece of angle iron or something that runs the length of the case. Then just run a power chord out the back of the server rack. You can get one of these for like 10-15 bucks.

My friend next door has one of those ..air shuffle board tables and it has a 180mm fan funning 9,000 rpm....talk about insane cooling, its runs off 120 line right from the wall.

frozencpu.com has a 150mm fan 250cfms or so i think and could possibly fit into a case

[QUOTE=carbongraphite]http://www.bigassfans.com/ dose your warehouse need a helicopter?

Hehe, that company is based here in Lexington, KY. You should have heard the whining when they put a billboard up on a major road It's still there though, drive by it a couple times a week!