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1. Loosen screws on the panel to move. 

2. Push that panel into place. You may need a friend to hold it tightly in the right spot. 

3. Re-tighten the screws to hold the panel.

Repeat the product, going around the enclosure looking to make sure all of the panels

are ﬂush to each other.

10. Managing Enclosure Temperatures

There's not much to a 3D printer enclosure. Although ours look fancy, functionally

they're not much diﬀerent than putting a card box over the printers since both designs

are passively heated by the heated beds.

We generally get two types of customers:

1. Those interested mostly in air quality.

2. Those interested mostly in print quality.

The problem is those two goals use two diﬀerent techniques in terms of airﬂow. For

the best air quality, as much air as possible needs to come into the enclosure and then

be vented or ﬁltered out. All of our enclosures come with fans, and we've chosen the

CFM ratings to match the cubic size of the enclosures. This ensures that for ﬁlament

types like PLA, which don't like the heat there's enough airﬂow to keep the

temperatures in the safe zone.

At the same time, you want the internal temperatures higher for ﬁlaments like ABS,

which happens naturally because the recommended bed temperatures are much

higher than for PLA, typically in the 105-120C range. With the fans turned on we shoot

for internal temps between 35C and 40C for 3D printers that use E3D hot ends,

because E3D recommends that temp range to avoid clogging. By keeping the

temperatures in that range it puts the least stress on the equipment and follows the

manufacturer's guidelines.

This works great for people either interested mostly in air quality or those who are risk-

averse and don't want to take a chance of clogging their hot ends or decreasing the

useful life of their printers.

More experienced 3D printer owners though, those for whom a clogged nozzle is an

acceptable risk, might want to run the temperatures higher for less warping of ABS

parts or to print nylon. In those cases, you can turn oﬀ the fans or even print one of

the vent covers and just not vent at all. For our internal print farm, we do the later on a

couple of machines where the temperature when printing ABS gets as high as 46C.