Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
Oh and that blue thing is a temperature/humidity sensor.
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
how do you get to your prints ? i seems to me that the printer is in the way.
I am planning to add a fan to my enclosure and use it to contoll the temperature.
As the printer is in the basement which never goes above 18°C it should work. there is an plugin for octoprint, at least i think there is one....
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
What do you mean how do I get my prints?
I open the door and take them of the build plate 🙂
It's not more in the way on its side than it is when it's facing you. Just slide the plate all the way to the left
Temperature management:
Yes you can do that with octoprint. It's the plugin I am running right now. But I don't need to control the temperature since I don't print ABS. I just have the fan running all the time at full speed. This Noctua fan is super quiet. You hardly heard it. Pretty impressive.
I just accidently disabled fan and leds (cancelled a print by pushing the button on the printer, so octoprint was out of sync, normally it turns it off automatically 10 minutes after the print. Here it turned it off 10 minutes after starting the new one 🙂 ), temperature rose to 27 degrees. After turning the fan on it went down to 23 again.
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
sometimes a need to get at all 3 sides to get big PETg prints off, thats why i am asking.
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
You can still reach around or slide around the entire printer if you want to.
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
I just finished designing my enclosure.
Its like 50% more expensive than the Ikea Besta enclosure - but guess what, it is not made out of card box...
And it should fit just perfectly including a camera bed mount, and enough room that the cables will not hit a wall.
Next week I am going to buy the materials
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
Looking good, but where is the filament feed ?
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
I will drill a hole on the top plate and mount the spool on the top.
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
Nice !
what are outer dimensions ?
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
Found this reddit thread that is similar and this comment looks like a pretty good option. Here is the imgur link from the post http://imgur.com/gallery/qYfju/new .
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
The advantage of my Ikea solution is that you can just buy everything and in 20 minutes you have an enclosure in which you just need to drill a couple of holes.
The Lack (or the above) solution is a lot more work.
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
Nice !
what are outer dimensions ?
Thanks
I could tell you later. I am currently doing a 2.0 drawing where I shrink the thing to fit better
Still a fusion beginner and when I started the shrinking process the model broke. But redoing it I am already quite faster.
When I build this thing I could share the bom and design file
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
Found this reddit thread that is similar and this comment looks like a pretty good option. Here is the imgur link from the post http://imgur.com/gallery/qYfju/new .
That looks nice!
But i already have an old fridge below the printer.
Its the cheapest airtight container i could think of to store Filament 😀
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
Not my MK3 yet, but my current printer. If shipping is on schedule, in 2 weeks time there will be a MK3 in that box
Works fine, but currently needs more ventilation, it becomes pretty toasty, even when just printing PLA...
Parts are ordered to use Ocftopi as a temp sensor and fan controller.
Re: Ikea Stuva or alternatives (not Lack) as enclosure
Having gone down this road, let me simply say: Don't.
Use 2020 aluminium extrusions, brackets, and enclose it with either thin plywood and/or poster board (lighter/easier to cut). I custom built mine from parts from Misumi, but in hindsight I should have simply bought one of their pre-spec'd enclosures. It will save a bunch of hunting for correctly sized nuts/bolt/etc.
What you want is this part number. Numbers in brackets are Width/Depth/Height:
HAUBA5-2020-W[300-1000/1]-D[300-1000/1]-H[300-1000/1]
https://us.misumi-ec.com/vona2/detail/110302285350/?Inch=0
I used 1/4" plywood on the top and back, then posterboard (Lowes/Home Depot) for the sides (easier/cheaper/lighter). Then you just need some door hinges and plexiglass door for the front. I designed some that work great if you're interested (none of the ones I found on Thingiverse worked):