Rubber ring

Rubber ring

A rubber ring is a ring made of rubber used in mechanical devices. It can be used to prevent vibration from spreading which would generate noise. It can be used to mount a fan.

They can be used in computers to mount hard disk drives to prevent the vibrations from the hard disk drive to spread to the computer case and cause noise.


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