A couple of weeks ago I did a chassis fan 'transplant' on a MikroTik CCR router, swapping the fairly noisy factory fans for 40mm Noctuas in the 'hot swap' cage.
I'd seen how chap had done this and posted up on the
STH forums, but I didn't really like how he'd used crimp connectors and thought it should be possible to (carefully) take apart the IDC connectors and remove the old ribbon cable, then place the Noctua fans in, relay the separate wires back into the IDC, just to make the job a bit more seamless.
Before
photo with ribbon cable and
old and new side-by-side
After photos - ready to go back in
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