Here’s a part of a cabinet in my wardrobe where my printer lives. It’s a bit noisy with all those hard surfaces so I am just about to put up some foam padding on all 5 sides.

Is that stupidly dangerous?

You can see I have a smoke alarm there, but it won’t stop a fire on its own.

Edit: the cabinet has no door, it’s always open like in the photo, but the wardrobe door is generally closed. The room has some ventilation so smells do go away.

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      It’s bad for the print, but good for safety to prevent overheating. But since you don’t have a door, you should be fine.

    • Venutianxspring@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Yeah like the other commenter says, bad to have direct airflow, but you can have a fan at the top circulating some air through the space

    • Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      You don’t want to pull cold air in but a small fan to circulate the air in the enclosure gives you more even temps from top to bottom and can improve print quality. I installed a nevermore filter a while back to filter the filament fumes and was surprised to see my prints improve too.