Heated enclosures… Has anyone made one? I recently bought a 3rd printer which was the cube 3 since it was cheap, but it doesn’t have a heated bed which sucks for printing abs. What heater/thermometer should I use? Basically starting from knowing nothing about heating an enclosure
Good luck with your Cube 3. I have one abandoned by the previous owner and the local library also has one. It doesn’t really need a heated bed. Purple glue stick works just fine. Handle the cartridges carefully, as the filament will break and poke a hole in the flimsy bowden tube to the nozzle. When that happens, keep the parts as it can be repaired from an empty, undamaged cartridge.
The ceramic coated aluminum bed will not take an add-on heater as the bottom of the bed contains three magnets that are integral to the leveling process.
Seems to be working well so far. Only complaint is that it cools one head, then heats the other and purges every time. It’s a waste of highly expensive filament
Not only the waste of filament, but the duration of the print increases by a factor of four! It’s worse with small prints but still bad with larger ones too, of course.
I’m still hoping that someone will come up with a good hack to use 3rd party filament. There is a chip spoof hack out there, but it only works with the older versions of the firmware and I’ve been unable to flash to an older version.
I’ve recently found a cube3 dedicated forum:
http://www.print3dforum.com/forumdisplay.php/31-Cube3