Recent content by Optix1974

My house is always above 75 as I live in the tropics, but I suspect PLA won’t cut it as the panels are going to get quite warm as the chamber heats up. If not ABS I would at least do PETG. I don’t do any functional prints out of PLA in general. I need to print spare parts out of ABS anyway so I...

I’ve been doing some non critical brackets for mods out of PETG until I can print ABS, maybe I’ll do that here too.

I don't know if this is the right forum for this question and I hope it's not a dumb question with an obvious answer, but here goes... When you get the functional ABS parts from PIF or Etsy sellers, etc. they don't come with panel clips or the exhaust cover. It seems like both of these would be...

Checking with local plastics shops now to see if that's the best way to go...

Interesting, but Tap wants $68.24 before shipping. I probably would have done it if I still lived in NorCal, because I could just do a Will Call pickup and it would be worth the extra $20-$30 to not have to set up the saw. West3D is only $40 (but their shipping to Hawaii is too high). Not sure...

Thanks, was hoping to avoid buying online due to the shipping costs to my location often making it not worth it. Just looked and in this case they will ship USPS first class which is affordable. Not going to pay the $76 shipping for the $40 panels though, so I guess I’ll be cutting those myself.

Nearing hardware completion on my self sourced build. BOM is vague on panel foam tape. Is it the compressed thickness that’s specified? Most of the weatherproofing tape I’ve looked at it quite a bit thicker but may compress down to the required thickness. It also doesn’t help that here in the...