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Power amps with fans -- maintenance?

Do the fans of power amps ever need to be cleaned out?
I've owned an Adcom GFA 5800 for years and can see the
dust accumulated on the vanes of the air intake ports.
But the user manual doesn't say anything about maintenance
and it's not obvious how to take the amp apart if cleaning
the fan blades is ever necessary.

cpacker

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georgehifi
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cpacker

Always a good idea to use a small to brush while sucking with a vacuum cleaner crevice nozzle to suck up the dust on the fan blades and heatsinks, entry vent and exit vent.
Then not a bad idea to keep them nice and quite, put one or two drops of machine oil on the fan bearings

https://youtu.be/hPyHBH3WwBM

Cheers George
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