Sunday, June 04, 2023

3d Printer Enclosure

Details Full designs will be available soon. Video Bill of Materials This is ordered roughly as they are used. 24"x24"x3/4" MDF Panel (6) Spax MDF Screws Wood Filler MDF Safe Primer (Latex Based or Pre treat the wood) Paint of your choice 12v Tri Color LED strips Arduino Rasperry Pi Metric Machine Screws Metric Stand Offs 18"x24" Lexan 12-18 Guage Wire 12v DC Power Supply Panel Enclosure Mains Power Switch and Port Computer Power Cable CAT6 Ethernet Keystone CAT6 Ethernet Cable Protosheild...

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Heated enclosure is now primed.

 

Some more progress has been made on the heated enclosure for the 3d printer.  It is now primed and ready for its base coats.

 

A new video is up for the 3d printer enclosure project.

 

I squared off the back and sanded the whole box down to prep for priming.  Between filiming the 1st and 2nd part I realized that I forgot to glue some of the joints and I went to remove a few panels.  I underestimated how well the MDF screws actually held the wood together and it started destroying the MDF in the area.  I decided that it would just be better to run a screw every inch instead of breaking all of the boards.  If you are building one of these you should be putting glue on every joint, the screws generally are only there to hold the shape while the glue hardens.