Quiet the beast  

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Wouldn't it be simpler to just swap the crappy bearings to make it more quiet?

But i bet it would look pretty darn cool in brassfill. All polished up.. If you do end up going that route, please do post pictures.

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The brass fill filaments look great, but are not structurally sound. Your printer would break constantly.

A simpler way is to go purchase a paving stone (~$5) and place the printer on it. It will be come much more quiet.

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Also heavier parts would affect your quality at higher print speeds.

Regards Joan

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use mks smoother board..... in silent mode i can hardly hear the steppers, also ratlle of the z carriage is almost zero...
Basically i only hear the fan....

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Seconding the pavement stone. I built an enclosure out of IKEA Lack tables and plastic sheets. While that cuts down on some high frequency noise, the table resonates and amplifies the noise. WITH the stone, and within the enclosure, my MK2S is about as aloud as a loud inkjet.

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After putting together the initial LACK tables together for the enclosure and performing my first print. I couldn't help but noticed the printer was LOUDER. I can feel the vibrations running down the legs of the table.

I'm picking up that pavement stone tomorrow!

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not sure if my printer is the only one but is darn quiet in high power mode...cant even hear it in the next room and very quiet in the same room.

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I originally had the sorbothane vibration mounts on top of a rubber non sticky pad (the type for kitchen drawers etc) it helped some. But nothing was really helping those rapid y movements. When I put it on the LACK table (as I'm building the enclosure) the lightweight table is resonating the noise even more.

I simply placed the stone on top of the LACK table and the 3D printer directly on top of that without any other mods.

I can't believe the amount of noise reduction of from a piece of $2 concrete from Lowes. The only thing I can really hear now are the fans. Which will also be remedied once the enclosure is done. 😀 😮

The concrete pavement stone (Lowe's called it "Patio stone") eyeballing it, it looks like its roughly 18" square and 1.5" thick.

This should be the first step to any noise reducing setup.

I might see if the sorbothane will help any more. I can do without them since its kinda PITA when moving the printer on and off.

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not sure if my printer is the only one but is darn quiet in high power mode...cant even hear it in the next room and very quiet in the same room.

nice! Is your printer set on the floor?

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use mks smoother board..... in silent mode i can hardly hear the steppers, also ratlle of the z carriage is almost zero...
Basically i only hear the fan....

I just looked this up. Does this affect the speed of the print at all? This is the first I've heard of something like this. Does it just go inline between the motors?

I've very interested in this. Which model is a good fit for our printer motors?

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Is the metal frame touching the floor or is the printer supposed to rest only on the 4 corner brackets?
Got 4 damping pads in the kit, but none for the metal frame, so was wondering how it was supposed to be installed..

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Is the metal frame touching the floor or is the printer supposed to rest only on the 4 corner brackets?
Got 4 damping pads in the kit, but none for the metal frame, so was wondering how it was supposed to be installed..

The metal frame should NOT be touching the floor. The printer should be standing on only the four feet.

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Is the metal frame touching the floor or is the printer supposed to rest only on the 4 corner brackets?
Got 4 damping pads in the kit, but none for the metal frame, so was wondering how it was supposed to be installed..

The metal frame should NOT be touching the floor. The printer should be standing on only the four feet.

Thanks Aaron, it wasn't mentioned in the manual but was concluding it shouldn't touch. There is a lot of vibration in the metal frame and was making a lot of noise on my desk.

For further dampening the vibrations, I saw https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1707045 'Vibration Damper for Prusa i3 mk2', but someone was commenting there that there is a 'antivibration feet' shared on this prusa website: http://www.prusa3d.com/prusa-i3-printable-parts/ (below).

Anyone experience with one or both of those designs?

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Best thing you can do is put the entire printer on a paving stone (available at home stores for $5).

Most anti-vibration things allow more motion which can build up harmonics and make things worse. A solid heavy slab will quiet things a lot.

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Hey guys,

Just wanted to give my input on making this machine more silent. I run this printer in my room, and try to run it while I sleep. I have made the following improvements to my printer:

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I have the stone on my list for the next trip to Home Depot..

Here is my current solution;

The vibration dampening feet combined with my top vibration dampers..

😎