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Topic: Jawhn's "Easy Bake Oven" Mod

Well, in reading on here how many folks believe that heating the ambient air around the print can help it stick / less likely to separate / make rainbows appear from nowhere, I started brainstorming a way to heat the air (enclosed mine, naturally) effectively and inexpensive-ly.

Easy Bake Oven. Everyone remembers those, right? I remember. I remember burning my fingers, the cookies, all sorts of things as a kid with the heat from a common halogen light bulb.

So, shutting up, here are some pics to better explain my crazy idea. It does a pretty swell job of heating the surrounding air.




(And always remember, the first mod everyone should immediately do to their Solidoodle 3 is to get a fan blowing onto that damn motherboard/PCB!)

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Two SD3s - One with Sang, One with Printrboard, Fans on control boards!!! Do this!!!, Dual Glass Beds, Blacklight "EZ Bake Oven" - Improves Ambient Temp, Sketchup, Repetier, Slic3r. Graphic Designer & Makeshift Engineer. Drinks Lots and Lots and Lots of Rum.

2 Reply by Tomek (edited by Tomek 2013-10-31 14:12:20)

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Re: Jawhn's "Easy Bake Oven" Mod

I would consider adding aluminum tape to some of the bed's black plastic parts, to reduce the heat there.

This is a decent mod though in this particular case way big (smaller bulb may have been better?)

I personally use a spare heatercatridge mounted in a 1" square of aluminum with a heatsink and fan attached. Just made up with scraps i had. When my printer is closed and the heater is on, I get around 42 degrees celsius ambient.

3 Reply by rickq

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Re: Jawhn's "Easy Bake Oven" Mod

What a bright idea.

4 Reply by diyengineer

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Re: Jawhn's "Easy Bake Oven" Mod

I would aluminum foil around it to protect some of the plastic parts. Great job! Simplicity!

5 Reply by dubbsd (edited by dubbsd 2013-11-01 22:23:02)

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Re: Jawhn's "Easy Bake Oven" Mod

what about this 12v heat cable

http://www.oemheaters.com/c-983-freezes … cable.aspx

Ultimaker S3.