"The poster formerly known as Colleyville Alan" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in
message news:xBsUg.1586

Correction: I wrote:
> I see that I used a very bad choice of words. There is a shroud that is
> basically a duct to guide the air toward the fan before it is blown out
> the back. THAT part slips out easily and does not appear in the
> dissassembly diagram whose link you posted. But if you look at the
> CompUSA fan, it is very thin and the one in the Dell is much thicker as it
> has that fan inside its own case. Say the fan is 1/4" thick, the case
> into which the fan sits, where the fan's wire cover is screwed in, is
> perhaps 1" thick.

The fan is, I see, not .25" thick but 25mm which is approx 1 inch, so ignore
the 1/4" remark above. However, there is still a case that clips into my
tower into which the fan fits and that is what I was talking about.