Good somution for enclosure and vibration dampenening?
I have a Prusa MK3S+ MMU2S and a Mini+ printer. My MK3S+ is in the lack MMU enclosure which honestly suits me well with its integrated spool holder design.
I bought both printers when i was living in my previous House, where I easily could make the noise and vibration level tolerable because the lower and upper floors were separated with a concrete deck, and the rooms had decent sound insulation.
I just moved countries, and I now live in a beautiful renovated farmers house, with wooden floors. But the vibrations from my printers are just too loud, and unfortunately the only place I can have the printers is above our bedroom.
I would like to keep some sort of enclosure for my MK3S+, but have run out of ideas on what I possibly can have that would work in this situation. What have you done in similar settings?
RE: Good somution for enclosure and vibration dampenening?
My MkS and Minis live in LACK enclosures. Each printer is sitting directly on a 16 x 16 concrete paver (from Lowe's, about $4, spray-painted with Plasti-Dip), and decoupled from the enclosure by means of four 1'' Sorbothane hemisphere feet ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005JRMYG2 ). I can't hear a thing.
RE: Good somution for enclosure and vibration dampenening?
Thanks for the tip. I’m not sure my MK3 and MMU would fit in the enclosure with a paver
Do you have version 1 or version 2 of the enclosure? Version 2 has the hinged lid, which is what I have. I can't recall for sure but I think I had the paver when I still had the MMU before I gave up on it.
If height is an issue, perhaps try one of the many squash ball feet solutions. I don't know that is is quite as good as a paver with sorbothane, but I've had good luck with squash balls. I've tried a few designs, but currently use this one. There is also a very low profile one that looks interesting.
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I literally live in a barn that I built A house out of and I have 1 prusa mk3 in the living room that also servers as a movie theater with 300" screen, we live in it and watch TV as well as movies, no problem, I have a printer sitting on a writing table in this room and I have to turn my head to make sure it's still printing its so quite. as well I have one other in a closet in the master bedroom same no problem, it's an I3 MK3s, no noise issues what so ever and neither is running in silent mode, I also have one at work that competes with two Stratasys Machines and a Form labs machine and it doesn't harbor a complaint form a soul in the office, once again not in silent mode. makes me wonder what you have going on.
The Filament Whisperer
Of course I can only guess but the OP' said his printer is in a Lack enclosure... The Lack tables are basically hollow cardboard and do a marvelous job at amplifying every noise. Drove me nuts until I put the paver in. Now it's silence.
well that makes scene then, I don't have any Lack enclosures, I wasn't aware they did that.
regards
Swiss_Cheese
The Filament Whisperer
Drum
the lack table is technically a drum (the musical instrument). A paver and sorbothane thingies as noted above are the correct answer. Decouple the printer from the drum.
Don’t trust forum advice.
Chalk on a blackboard.… that's the sound of filament running through a plastic conduit in the LACK lid...
I ended up making a conduit with a PTFE tube inside. Works great.