Perfect 120mm template for a fan hole

[Slake]

A CD is 120mm diameter. Wonder how many duhs I get for this observation? :) I never read it anywhere. I was looking for a household item to use and ...BAM... right in front of me. Finally a useful purpose for those AOL CD's that keep popping up everywhere!!

[Fro]

DOH. i did it the hardware of using a compass and still screwed mine up slightly(the grill covers it up tho) i wish i had know that first, i got tons of coaster lying around, i'll do that next time...

[TT120]

Sure enough. Sheesh, why didnt I think of that?

[Fro]

makes me wonder how many ppl who see this are gonan be slapping their forheads after tryin to trace the inside of the fan or use a compass or find sumthin like a bowl to outline

[Mr B]

Great find, Slake!!

The best part is AOL goes out of their way to mail us these templates for free.....lol

I've got a bunch of their discs in a box...maybe someday they'll make a cd burner that will write over them, and I'll have a ton of free blanks.

Either that, or I'll get some pellets for the air rifle, and have an all day skeet shoot fest in the backyard.

Mr B

[Shadow ÒÓ]

hehe I remember saving aol disks for the soon to be released technology of CDRW. A lot of us thought we could just write over them like floppies. =)

[Spode]

I did! Iremmebr looking at them and seeing it wasn't full and hoped I could fill up the rest :D how WRONG can you be!

[HAZZ2]

I sent my case to a body shop to have it loovered

[AKDUDE]

Yup, I discovered the same thing a month ago when I got in some 120 fans. I looked all over the damn house for something to use, because my compase was missing the fine needle point.

Then BAM! there was a AOL cd, lol, no kidding, just like you I used one to make my holes.
AKDUDE

[Slake]

I would have been very surprised if no-one else had noticed that. I cut a Killer "suck-hole" in the front of my woefully under vented case bezel with the aide of a CD.

[Kryten]

This suprises me that no one ever thought of this before, I did the CD measure years ago while trying to find a hole large enough for speakers and speaker ports.have a look around your house you would be suprised how many small circles there are, small plates, pan lids etc etc.