I just wanted to share my heat box build for my Prusa I3 printer.

I just wanted to share my heat box build for my Prusa I3 printer. I got the wood at Home Depot…$24 for a 4’ X 8’ sheet which is enough for whole box. Everything is laser cut and fits together nice. Next will be the acrylic side windows and front and top doors. All the electronics will fit underneath including the PSU.

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That is awesome @Mike_Smith . Can’t wait to see more photos after this is all done. What prusa i3 are you using?

@marc_petrykowski , he’s using my old aluminum plate Prusa i3 with his own redesigned parts from top to bottom. I donated it to him after he had become proficient with his Prusa Mendel :slight_smile:

Oh gotcha! So this isn’t available for the standard Prusa i3?

Define “standard”? Even before the official i3 was released to the public, there were so many damn variations that I wouldn’t even be able to tell you what people are calling “standard”.

His parts are very similar to the Einstein branch, with slightly raised Y corners, “backwards” X motor (motor on left, but with the back end of the motor facing you), and he’s got a custom aluminum cut plate with 4 linear bearings (we found that 3 was causing too much bed flex in the corners).

This box is big enough to fit the i3 in the “build area”, with electronics, etc mounted underneath. He’s making dual top doors, and the bowden tube will run between them, likely with some sort of insulative strip setup so that the whole thing is heated.

I have the prusa i3x and i3xl from DIY tech shop if that helps?

It would fit the i3x, but not the i3xl; it would need to be extended forward a bit. Though…if I recall correctly, I actually built my i3 Y axis about 3-4cm longer than was typical.

aww gotcha. Im still curious how this all will fit