PRUSA XL ENCLOSURE ASSEMBLY and REVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- This video goes step-by-step through the assembly of the printable Prusa XL enclosure with doors. All of the structural elements can be printed. The polycarbonate sheets and hardware are available from AliExpress and the links are in the description. Creating an enclosure around your 3-D printer helps maintain humidity and temperature allowing for more reliable printing.
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I love that you are building this while it is printing something. That makes it seem even easier to install and your confidence that the print won't be disturbed is also pretty amazing. I can't wait until everything shows up to start the build.
It’s been great. Be sure you print the long ruler and measure it. Mine was 2 mm off so I had to adjust up the percentage from 100 to 100.21 or 100.42 based on what you see. The bill is outstanding. It’s a lot of fun I’m getting ready to upgrade from one to five printheads on my Prusa XL. I’m waiting for my order from Prusa and then I will do a video on that. Consider subscribing. Thanks. Joe.
Yes, I understand that but I’d became impatient and now it’s nice because it keeps all the heat in and the moisture out. I think you get better prints with an enclosure, and this one turned out to be pretty nice fun to put together too.
Build was successful. I didn't have a big enough set of calipers to get the length measured. I printed almost everything in PC with 3 perimeters. Worked out great. I tried to guess with a crude measuring tool...I got 100.4%. That wasn't correct but I was still able to use the pieces without reprinting. I went to 100.8% and the rest of the parts printed perfectly. So it isn't the end of the world if the scale is off. Just error a little small rather than too big. My kit was short one magnet, 2 t-nuts and 1 bolt. I broke one of the larger magnets. I used the larger piece and it still worked. My wireless connection was too tall but I was able to rotate it down and get the enclosure on. Love it.
Congratulations on your build it’s wonderful. It’s nice when the enclosure allows the whole area to be heated mines usually at about 80°F and that helps with adhesion for sure. It’s a fun project to build. I had a few missing pieces. I was short three he said inserts, but I had already bought 100 so that was OK. Otherwise, my kit was pretty complete. Consider subscribing. Thanks. Joe.
Thanks for showing of this enclosure Dr. Joe (and Voxel3D for designing it). Looks like a great solution for the XL.
Thank you very much for your comment. It is an excellent design and my video is actually listed in printable under the downloadable files to make the parts for this. It is a lot of fun to make with your printer and even more fun to assemble. The kit from Ali Expressis really quite good and I did buy a vertical heat set. Insert soldering iron machine which made putting those threaded inserts a breeze. Consider subscribing. Thanks. Joe.
nice video, going to start assembly of mine hopefully this weekend
Thank you for your comment. It’s a fun project. I hope the video was helpful. Consider subscribing. Thanks. Joe.
@@JosephHunstad you got it
Great build video of the enclosure, thank you!
Thank you for your nice comment. It was a lot of fun to put it together. The instructions were a bit vague, but it really turned out to be a great project. I’m very pleased with it. Consider subscribing. Thanks Joe.
Did you end up just getting a shorter USB stick? I was wondering if that would work. . .
Very nice video Dr Joe thanks for sharing
Thank you for your nice comment. It was quite a major build and I really enjoyed it. If you do this build I hope the video is helpful. Consider subscribing. Thanks Joe.
Love to get one for my Prusa XL but I am waiting to see what Prusa will release for it I am sure will be expensive@@JosephHunstad
Thanks for the build video!
I hope you found it useful. I have liked this enclosure very much. It keeps the temperature constant inside and keeps it very warm and toasty for the filament. If you want to have a video camera, however you have to look through the enclosure, which is a small distortion but very doable.consider subscribing. Thanks. Joe.
When you start your build or better if you have a shop glue / tape a magnet on a wall or on your desk and that magnet is now the master magnet for the rest of the build. Now you will clock all of your magnets off of the master magnet so they all attract / repel in the same direction. Also at the beginning of the build take a permanent marking pen and mark all of the magnets on one side so they are all installed with either the marked side on the outside or the marked side on the inside of the hole.
Thank you for your absolutely excellent idea that would make placing magnets so straightforward and you would never mess them up. Thank you for your suggestion. It’s great. I’m going to employ that with my next bill. Consider subscribing. Thanks. Joe.
Search “Countersunk Disc Magnet” and screw one somewhere in your shop. Forever more all projects will be clocked off of that one magnet.
So great information thank you so much. The small upscale is because once you print pet G it shrinks. It’s interesting that you print one. That’s 345 mm long and when you measure it it’s 2 mm shorter than that so that’s why the 100.42% upgrade was necessary for everything to fit properly. I just uploaded a video 0:01 of my 125 nextruder Upgrade you might want to check it out. I thanks. Joe.
Dear Joe,
Wow, thank you so much for providing this video to the community!
Thanks for the feedback as well, I'll do my best to fix the issues as soon as possible. Also, would you be oke with it if I link this video in the printables listing and the manual?
Yes, feel free to link it. That would be great. Also consider subscribing. Thanks Joe.
Hey Joe, I got my printer and enclosure and im getting ready to print the enclosure parts. The printer is very NICE! I was wondering if I can ask you a couple questions about your enclosure. Did you print your parts with .6 or .4 nozzle my printer shipped with the .4mm nozzle. Did you print all your parts using an input shaper? And did you print the parts with supports? I thought I read somewhere that the enclosure does not require any supports for printing so Im a bit unsure. Also Im hesitant to print them with input shapper because I have not used it yet other than the Prusa keychain sample which I think is running input shaper. Any input you can share would be much appreciated. Thank you!
Congratulations on getting your new printer. I printed all the enclosure parts with a 0.6 mm nozzle. That’s because that’s the standard at the time now it’s become 0.4. I think you’ll get a finer print if you use the 0.4 mm. I also used.PETG BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO WITHSTAND HEAT.PLA IS PROBABLY NOT THE BEST
there are two parts that need to be printed separately. They’re the largest parts of the whole build the ones that extend from the print bed, and I would definitely use supports on those. Other than that you can print that one giant sheet with everything except those two parts that extend from the print bed. consider subscribing. Thanks. Joe.
Thanks for the video. My XL coming next week and im going to order this enclosure kit. Looks like a nice enclosure but seems like it would be a bit better if the front panel would hinge up to open what do you think?
So the enclosure is overall excellent, but not perfect. If you go into the print Ables where you download the information for the parts number one be sure, you print everything at 100.42%, but then look at the other comments because other people have contributed new bars in the front and newhandles for the lid and doors that make things much better. You’ll love your printer. I just upgraded mine from a one head to a five head. Standby for that video. Consider subscribing. Thanks. Joe.
@@JosephHunstad thanks for the tips I will be sure to do that. Why the small scale up in size, I assume the parts and maybe hole sizes are a bit under sized? I bought the 5 head for multi material, especially soluble support and some multi color printing. Have you run any soluble materials yet? I bought the XL to replace my old Stratasys Dimension SST ES1200 machine which is a commercial machine (32K new back in the day, I paid 15k used) so I have high hopes the XL will live up to the expectations so I can phase out the Dimension. I use multiple MK3s & S+ printers at my day job and I LOVE Prusa machines so I knew the XL will be at least as good or better!! The little MK3s make parts as good as my Dimension for Penny’s VS a the Dimension, believe it or not a roll of material and support is $250.00 bucks so it’s $500 to feed the machine. Parts I make are functional mechanical assembly parts. BTW: Stratsys is the company who invented FDM printing technology in the 80s, cornered the market, became a greed monger company charging that kind of money and making you buy into a $2500.00- 3K service contract every year. Needless to say I’m done with that years ago and have waited so long for a prosumer printer capable to replacement replace it. It’s a good thing there patent ran out which started the boom in 3D printing.
I don't have a press. Do you think I could press in the inserts with an automatic temperature controlled soldering tool by hand?
Great question. Yes, you can use a soldering iron that has a fine tip as long as it fits into those 3 mm openings in the threaded brass heat inserts. Be sure to put them in squarely. You can get a new soldering iron from Ali Express for like five dollars or amazingly cheap or Temu consider subscribing. Thanks. Joe.
I like the idea of your soldering iron being on that mount. What's it called (so I can go search for one to buy)?
That'll be very handy when having to insert many heat inserts in a production environment/assembly line.
Thank you for your comment. In the description for the video is a direct link, you can click on it and it will take you right to the heat pressing machine that I bought. It was as low as $49 dollars. Consider subscribing. Thanks. Joe.
It’s actually on sale right now for $48
Fantastic,@@JosephHunstad. Thank you.
Thank you for the video!
where I can find the build manual?
Thank you for your comment. You can download it from printables that’s also where you can download and make the 3-D parts consider subscribing. Thanks, Joe.
About to finally assemble mine and have one question....which side do the heated inserts go in, does it matter?
Hello. That’s a great question. If your heat inserts have a narrow end, which many do, that’s the end that goes in first. I have a video on heat set. Insert you may wish to take a look at. Consider subscribing. Thanks. Joe.
@JosephHunstad thanks for the response. I was asking about which side of the printed part they get inserted into, do you remember? Does it matter which side? It's kind of hard to tell from the instructions for most of the parts. I'm guessing the recessed side that the acrylic panels slot I to is the side that get the I seats inserted, is that correct? Hope I'm being clear enough...having a bit of work related brain fog at the moment.
Yes, the recessed parts are where the inserts go into in general. Just take a close look at those and I agree the directions are pretty poor and I made that comment during the video presentation. You can actually watch the video again and you can see where I’m putting those heat set inserts. Thanks again. Joe.
@JosephHunstad thanks again for the quick response. I thought that's where they would go. Printing the parts took A LOT longer for me than the directions stated so I wanted to avoid messing things up if possible. I ordered more heat Inserts just in case though. Once I get this done I'll also be installing the LED set you added.
Do you find that the enclosure gets hot enough to prmrint most things or did you need to add a heater of some kind? I already printed & assembled a Nevermore filter to help, but also was thinking of adding a small heater.
I’m not sure that you’ll need a heater. I was doing some printing yesterday with PETG and . Let me know if you think you need a heater. I’m interested in your findings I have not needed one. Take care. Joe.
What is the overall height of the printer + enclosure? Trying to see if that will fit in the spot I have planned for it. Thanks.
I will let you know later in the week I’m out of town. Thanks.
When you include the new sound, dampening feet installed - another video to watch - 37 inches is from the top of the enclosure to the bottom.
how long did you have to wait for the acrylic panels to arrive?
Thank you for your question. It’s a good one.Aliexpress actually sent those panels to me pretty quickly. I also made a dry box and ordered a hardware and acrylic panel kit and it arrived in a week and this kit arrives in a week as well. The panels are actually polycarbonate which is the same material as used in safety glasses, and the kit for me was excellent except it was deficient for heat set inserts, which apparently has been corrected.consider subscribing. Thanks, Joe.
Does it considerably the loud noise of the XL? I was so surprised how this printer is loud!
Thank you for your question. No the enclosure does not considerably reduce the noise but it certainly helps. Also the vibration reduction feet video that I posted you might look at that because that’s helped with the sound reduction somewhat also. Consider subscribing. Thanks. Joe.
Thanks for your reply! Will take a look at it for sure, this printer is so loud! @@JosephHunstad
Can you link to the setup used to heat the brass inserts please? I need one
Please look at my channel. I have a video of the heat press that I made very recently.
I will also place a link in the description