good morning YouTube so I'm getting ready to finish off these panels for my 3d printer
enclosure and so what came with the panels it's just one inch wide 25 millimeter foil tape you
need to cover these ends of the panels these channels up so the way I put these on to get
a nice fit as you pull the paper off so I like to get it on one and you get it roughly centered and
don't stick it down all the way you want to get over to the other end just get it stuck down and
then for the smaller panels and what I like to do is site down the the end there if you can see
that and get it nice and centered on this and flip it around you want to get it about equal coverage
on both sides so it doesn't look locked lopsided so once you get it stuck down there then to get
a nice fold you run your finger back and forth down that side and then what you start doing is
just bending your finger slightly over the edge just slowly fold it until you get it mostly over
like that now you got one side show you what that looks like here and then you can kind of flatten
that side out a little bit so then you flip it around and now I've got this side to smooth over
so you just just run your finger back and forth maybe bend it 10 or 15 degrees at a time until
you get a 90 degree Bend you just don't want to bend it over all in one shot because then
it you won't get a nice flat finish so then what I do is take something like a pencil and just rub
it rub it along the flat sides probably on the ends I just use finger pressure because they're
sharp corners here and you don't want to tear through the aluminum but there you go there's
one panel yeah good evening YouTube there it is my 3d printer enclosure finished it's got
the string of color changing leds in there that's running off at 12 volts everything comes off see
I recess three magnets across the top and then I also recess the magnets there and that hole is the
drum on so there's really no hinges I think it works better that way I can just take the front
off and then get full access inside the printer now the top is held on with four magnets one in
each corner so that just lifts off and then this frame just sits on top and it's a makes it pretty
pretty tight fit it's not airtight or anything but I think that's going to do the trick so yeah you
can see this side panel there yes lets the side panel so basically the back half of that there's
a split right down the middle so the back half lifts up and out and then the front piece slides
in and then you push it forward to lock in around these two mounting studs and that just is held in
there with friction and the top is held on with gravity good evening youtube so i got my front
cover modified i put two extra layers of the eight millimeter material on there and then move my
magnets from the outside layer to the inside layer and now it clears out a fully enclosed printer
there i left the sides of this cover unsealed for now i want to see if this provides a little bit
of ventilation to keep it from getting too hot because there's a lot of air that blows off the
extruder forward so I figure that way it'll kind of keep most of the heat trapped in but it'll let
some of it out so things don't get too hot can always block these off if it's not staying hot
enough this is a fairly large part you can see it covers most of the build plate right there goes
clear from the front to the back I figure that'll be a pretty good test of abs I'm hoping keeping
the build volume somewhat enclosed will help that keeps the temperature in here a little bit closer
to the bed temperature so the cooling will take place over a longer period of time so we'll see
that's my first big print in ABS here's this one's about 14 our print so we'll see what it looks like
in the morning and I've added my little external light is a 12 volt 3y Harvey reading lamp that I
have up there is for little lights this one's not remote-controlled but I just have a little switch
up here I can come up flip it off flip it on and that only uses 3 watts so it's not a lot of power
off my solar battery bank it's just what quarter of an amp of power you know i just thought i'd
show you the modified build enclosure there if you have a type a machines printer and you want
to build an enclosure it is pretty straight forward to do you don't really have to modify
the printer at all fact you don't modify it in the slightest it's all as it was delivered no
drilling no gluing no screwing everything hangs off of it or sits on top of it or slides in in
the side there yeah I think that's going to work pretty good so we'll see how this works overnight
and I'll let you know what it looks like in the morning so catch you later thanks for watching you