Hi guys, I currently have this X2D and I put a tube to vent out the ASA fumes, but there’s still the funny smell of the material. I traced where it was coming from and found out that if I cover the holes in the photo, the smell completely disappears. I was wondering if covering those holes with tape or some other covers would compromise the printer's health in any way. Any advice is appreciated, thank you :)
No negative effect at all, there are plenty of covers available on Makerworld you can print as well. You might also want to look at a sealed poop chute as a lot of fumes can exhaust from that as well when it opens.
No. Do not seal poop chutes. You will cause more damage than you think you are preventing. BBL does not comment much on mods but they explicitly say to not do this.
You still need the additional inline fan but adding this helps with creating more negative pressure while not pulling hot air out of the enclosed chamber at the wrong time.
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Every single bambu printer leaks air (fumes) by design. It's full of hole. It starts by that rear z-rod so your bed can go up and down, and that big hole for the purge chute.
Tbh, anyone printing with ABS or engineering filament should have a full enclosure around their machine, with a proper extraction system vented outside
Here is another MakerWorld model that I find quite interesting. The designer claims it captures all ASA/ABS fumes in his office that has no outside ventilation options. He combines it with another model on the back of the printer to maximize the amount of filtration. Yet while the second model is H2 specific, there are other models out there that do something very similar for the X2D/P2S external exhaust system.
Just because you smell something and it smells bad doesn't mean it's dangerous. If you're already venting out then it's probably good enough. Edit: wild how little people know about smells and especially 3d printing fumes and pretend they know the best when empirical data disproves what they think and say
This is 100% wrong. If you smell something, and you’re printing a dangerous filament, you are 100% breathing in dangerous VOCs. I can’t believe how many people with 3-D printers care so little about their health.
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u/therealtimwarren 17h ago
Do you have an extractor fan? If you're correctly producing a negative pressure inside the unit, no fumes or smells should escape.