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New enclosure the culprit? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last week, I printed this lamp cover successfully. Print direction was "bottom to top" without any support material. Now, the last print of the same cover failed miserably. The main difference is that my Prusa MINI+ now lives within an enclosure so I assume the temperature within the enclosure might be the culprit here. Would love to hear your thoughts on it and I'm sure that you have an idea how to circumvent this situation in my next print.

I used PLA with a nozzle temperature of 200°C and a bed temperature of 60°C.

Looking forward to hear your thoughts ☺️

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I recall a video from one of the 3d printing youtubers that showed that an enclosure could allow plastic printer parts to warp, causing prints to fail. It was really a surprising result to me, since I was considering buying an enclosure for my tevo tornado (which is mostly metal, but not entirely especially after some printer upgrades I printed)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, that sounds alarming. I mean, one usually has good intentions when trying to protect the printer from dust and kids, but now I'm learning that it could potentially be more harmful than beneficial. Do you have the link to the YouTube video you mentioned?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/2D-WRCGcJbs

This video does a good job of showing and talking about some potential issues with using an enclosure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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