Here’s a part of a cabinet in my wardrobe where my printer lives. It’s a bit noisy with all those hard surfaces so I am just about to put up some foam padding on all 5 sides.

Is that stupidly dangerous?

You can see I have a smoke alarm there, but it won’t stop a fire on its own.

Edit: the cabinet has no door, it’s always open like in the photo, but the wardrobe door is generally closed. The room has some ventilation so smells do go away.

  • Venutianxspring@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    I’m not an expert here, but looking at the volume of the space, you’re probably going to be fine. Why don’t you add a small fan in the back of the enclosure to get some more airflow?

      • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        It’s bad for the print, but good for safety to prevent overheating. But since you don’t have a door, you should be fine.

      • Venutianxspring@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        Yeah like the other commenter says, bad to have direct airflow, but you can have a fan at the top circulating some air through the space

      • Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        You don’t want to pull cold air in but a small fan to circulate the air in the enclosure gives you more even temps from top to bottom and can improve print quality. I installed a nevermore filter a while back to filter the filament fumes and was surprised to see my prints improve too.