that's good morning YouTube so I've been working on my type a machines series 1 pro 3d printer and
this is the way it comes it's an open build volume so you've got the metal frame and it's got these
plexiglass kind of decorating panels and one thing I was thinking would be a good idea is to make an
enclosure for the print volume and on the sides I guess one thing you could probably do is cut a
piece of plexiglass the full size and put that in place but I have these scraps of 5 16 inch
or 8 millimeter double wall polycarbonate panel that I used on my patio roof and walls so I have
some strips of these so there's these spacers that space the decorative panels off of the metal frame
they were a little bit under eight millimeters and this is a little bit over eight millimeters
so I just stuck in an extra washer and I cut some notches to fit around the spacers and I can drop a
panel in there let's see if I can get it up here it's a basically a friction fit and then I cut
another panel and then this guy I just basically cut these things to fit in here and there we go
we've got a panel enclosure on that side and if we spin it around you can see I've got the other
side and closed and they on for the front I had another scrap of material I did not even cut this
this was the scrap as I had it on my scrap pile I mean that I mean it it's like I measured and
cut this piece to fit but I didn't this came off the scrap pile I think what I'm gonna do
is I'm going to embed a couple of magnets down in here and just have the magnets hold out on the
front because this I think is steel and yeah I'll just have to leave access to the power button i
think i have access there and then I had another scrap literally this is the way it came off my
scrap pile and that one fits right up on top to give this a little bit of working room for the
filament because you see the filament has to come in and and arc over there what I'm going to do is
put a couple of two by twos up on top there so let me go grab one of those and show you okay so what
I'm gonna do to give me a little bit of height here as I've got a couple of scrap two by twos
these came from my last shipping crate and I just want to build a simple frame around the front here
probably slide those back put that across the front and then I'll put this piece on top here
actually my plan instead of having the spool up on top like that is I want to have my filaments pools
in a separate airtight container with desiccant in it and I'll just actually feed a tube with the
filament up and back and the only way the top is going to be attached and see there's these screws
that hold the rails in place and what I'll do is just drill little recesses on the wood so that
that registers over these screw heads that way this will register right on top and that's just
going to sit up there so that's all re purposed material the other thing is I do not have to drill
or do any modifications to the printer itself everything just drops in place slides in existing
gaps and that way I'll have a totally enclosed build volume and then with the clear sides
that'll let light in from outside but I also plan on putting some LED strip lighting inside here so
I'm going to have some 12 volt LED strip lights i'll probably put put lights around the top here
because this printer does have the webcam built-in if we move over here i'll show you that kind of
hard to see it's out of the way here but right there is a little webcam that stream video of the
printing process because my printer will be up in the attic and my plan is to just start a print and
then i can watch the video stream and make sure it's all going ok but if it's printing for 12
hours I don't necessarily want to go up and check on it all the time so that's one reason I bought
this printer because it has the built-in webcam and the built-in Wi-Fi access ok so I'll give
you a shot of this once i get a little farther on i want to try the my magnets on here because
this is I think it's all steel construction and I think with the magnets or the velcro that'll be
nice because I can just take the whole front off if I need to and I can also just lift the top off
if I need access to the bed and there's no tools required to install this everything just fits in
place and frontal stick on with magnets the sides just slip fit into the existing decorative panels
and then the top will just sit on top with gravity holding it down and the idea of doing this one is
when i'm running a heated bed this will keep the heat trapped inside to some degree so it doesn't
take as much energy to keep the bed hot as right now when it's hold and where is circulating it's
constantly cooling that bed down so the bed heater has to run more and that uses more power and then
the other thing is for plastics that shrink and warp quite a bit like abs and nylon I think it
would be nice to have the seal bad here's what happens when the an ABS part cools enough that
will show up there in the light you can see I had good bed adhesion the the bottom of this
case stuck to the bed but there was such stress as the upper layers cool they pulled away from
the bottom layers as I understand it if you with ABS if you can have a enclosed build volume that
stays reasonably hot this warping tends to be less so I guess one way to find out is to try it
so that's my plan is I want to enclose this build volume and yeah I'll show you what it looks like
when i get done and then one other thing this is the plastic panel i have and you can see there's
there's this protective film on and unfortunately i left this outside quite a while and this film
has become quite brittle really hard to peel off i found a really handy trick for getting that stuff
off and i'll show you that here in a little bit so yeah stay tuned for updates on this project
as i get it finished and i'll show you what it looks like a little later thanks for watching