Our dishwasher packed up a few weeks ago, the replacement is due Monday.

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Our dishwasher packed up a few weeks ago, the replacement is due Monday. I was just in the kitchen making a cupa, thinking about the disposal of the old one when it struck me it’s a nice big air tight box.
Lower noise, reduced smells, easier to maintain temperature (could even power up the heater element). Kossel Mini 61.5cm high, internal space 60.2cm high. Time to invent an inverted top adjuster, trim the upright to get 1.5 back.

Internal LED lights, printing and monitoring via the camera and OctoPi. The more I think about it the more I want to do it. I can get some wood effect sticky backed plastic to cover it in, make it look less like a kitchen appliance…

I can find loads of references to people printing parts FOR a dishwasher, not anyone using one. Any ideas you’d add to the mix?

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One significant change I did to the Kossel Mini was to de-couple belt tightening from the top frame. It is very important that your towers be perpendicular to the bed, and parallel to each other. You can’t maintain this if you use the tower top adjustment for belt tension. I built a little pulley carrier attached to the top vertex with screws that can be tightened independent from the frame.

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drawings: https://github.com/Mr-What/kossel

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Take the front door off, replace with perspex or mylar or whatever.

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Don’t forget the jet dry!

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Leave the door on for stealth. Run octoprint with a camera. Have it actually dong the bell when the “load” is finished. :wink: