- Joined
- Jan 18, 2010
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- Residing in Wicklow Ireland
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- Canon/3D, CR-10, CR-10S, KP-3
I finally got around to making the Ikea container into a heat box, I started by installing a small 3D hot plate with a floor tile (Pic1) as an insulator on the box side and ran the wiring out through a drilled hole.
I also put a thermostat probe in under the hot plate to monitor and control the plate temperature and screwed the stat to the outside of the box, in photo 2 you can also see the floor tile mounting screws and power supply.
Here are some of the partly used Filament reels (Pic3) I needed to dry, I am going to start by getting this lot in the box first and hopefully I can start using some of them again by next week, once the filament was unwrapped it quickly became contaminated with moisture in just half a day..
I managed to load all of these rolls into the box and placed a Hygrometer with them and I plan to get and hold the temperature at 35 c and then just wait till the humidity starts to drop, the inside of the box is currently at 22c and 63% humidity, and this is where I'm starting from.
I was able to get a 3D printer 12V power supply, the Hot Plate and Thermostat for €26, and it took the Afternoon to put all the pieces together, I didn’t have small enough nuts to fit the M3 screws but I found a couple of brass mounts that worked, the screws I ordered will arrive one day...

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I also put a thermostat probe in under the hot plate to monitor and control the plate temperature and screwed the stat to the outside of the box, in photo 2 you can also see the floor tile mounting screws and power supply.
Here are some of the partly used Filament reels (Pic3) I needed to dry, I am going to start by getting this lot in the box first and hopefully I can start using some of them again by next week, once the filament was unwrapped it quickly became contaminated with moisture in just half a day..
I managed to load all of these rolls into the box and placed a Hygrometer with them and I plan to get and hold the temperature at 35 c and then just wait till the humidity starts to drop, the inside of the box is currently at 22c and 63% humidity, and this is where I'm starting from.
I was able to get a 3D printer 12V power supply, the Hot Plate and Thermostat for €26, and it took the Afternoon to put all the pieces together, I didn’t have small enough nuts to fit the M3 screws but I found a couple of brass mounts that worked, the screws I ordered will arrive one day...



