Laptop Fan -- Can Tape Hold Out?

In my recent laptop, I noticed a rather bizarre sound coming from one of the fans. I initially thought that the bearing was low on oil (which would be odd since it is a brand new laptop, only 12 days old; but sometimes lemons happen), so I disassembled the laptop and found the offending fan, which was screwed into a heatsink and had two copper pipes going from that heatsink to the northbridge and to the video card. While keeping the fan in the heatsink, I peeled back the sticker, dropped in 1 drop of oil, cleaned up any excess, and put the sticker back. To help keep the sticker on, i affixed a small piece of ordinary 3M office semi-clear scotch tape to the center of the fan, and carefully clipped off the edges of the tape so it was a circle on the center of the fan.

Should I be worried about the tape? The fan spins pretty fast at high loads and full throttle, and I'm guessing that heatsink heats up to a pretty high temperature. I'm worried that the tape will slowly degrade and peel off, only to then fly off and get caught somewhere and screw everything up.

 

Hmm. Use a stronger tape then. I can't help you out much here. Sorry.

 

Make sure whatever you use doesn't conduct electricity. Not sure what would work under heat and speed. Possibly some wax covered paper and glue it down around. But I don't know.

 

I think it's better if you completely replace the sticker with a piece of tape. I made a fix like that on my dad's old Dell and it's been holding up fine.

 

Should be ok
If the tape is at the middle of the fan, it should be ok.
If the tape happens to fly off, the most it can do is clog up the heatsink, its not going to be flying at 100mph or something