Ungluing FAN from CPU

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I doubt if somthing like nail polish remover would agree
with your cpu. It really depends on just how smooth the
ceramic surface (assuming non mmx233 or PII)
of your cpu is; with rough surfaces (eg the 'ole i486-sx chip)
you can pretty much forget it.

In your situation I'd try one of three things:

1-
a) Carefully destroy the fan section with pliers, remove spindle,motor
blades etc.
b) mount 2nd fan on top of remaining rim - if present, screw standard
hex mounts into existing rim screw positions.

2- (risky)
a) Attach small vice clamp to 2 edges of the cpu (using thin soft buffer -
like antistatic matting)
b) use wood or similar in clamp to block lateral sliding
c) use second vice clamp (or miniture G clamp) to carefully
place pressure on the heatsink/fan towards the direction of the
wooden block. Tighten clamp slowly over an extended period of time
and use a good jewelers flat bladed screw driver to try and lift the
heatsink w/o digging into the fragile cpu case. Watch out, cpu case
corners chip easily and pins can break off if bent.

3-
Take it to an *expert* comp. repair shop if you can't afford to lose the cpu.

Mitch.