Hia,
Over the 3-4 years of my in time 3d printing, I have accumilated over £4000s worth of junk. This is not limited to the following:
fans both 12v and 24v, of the 4040,3030,2020(Sizes)
thermistors(no name)
heater cartridges(both 12v, 24v, 90degree angle ones, at various wattage)
hex/allen keys
loose 3d printed brackets and parts
wires of varying awg
bolts
nuts of varying sizes
Tnuts mostly m5
Slide in Tnuts
bearings
dc connectors
dupont wires
hotends including a cloned mosquito, and e3d heatsinks
Plenty of e3d Nozzles
Plenty of non ratchet spanners
drill bits
wood screws
sensors i.e. the pinda style probes both 5vs and standard and of varying sizes so the 8mm 12mm and 18mm.
Bltouch type clones
Vslot extrusions of varying sizes
You probably get the idea, and its badly organised, with no luck in digging in nicely to find what is need...
Your opinion is need to help me organise this space, as I am planning to buy the IKEA Kitchen Cabinet
The compartment where the microwave goes, will be used to enclose the externals i.e. power supply, Duet, din rail wiring system, SSR, and various other components; for the for hotswappable DIY 3d Printer of 400x400x315 size
The DIY printer is a ender 5 style clone, in the body of a Layerfused x301.
The other compartment will include my Ender 3 clone, which I am not too bothered enclosing, but would after buying this kitchen cabinet, like the idea of a all in one station/ on stop location for my 3d printers.
I will just to be safe be extending the cables for the Ender 3 with a long loom of 20AWG, to have the electronics and power supply(DC wiring will be using 16AWG), be attached within the same space as the rest of the wiring and electronics of the other printer.
The cover to the microwave section/enclosure would be an old laptop dedicated to the Duet web Control and Cura. So I would be using Opera as the web browser due to how solid the connection is with DWC. Using a very light linux distro etc.
So long story short, other than the filament itself which will be held in one of the shelves.
Whats necessities do I need, or should I atleast replace the spanners and hex/allens with a ratchet spanner set in a hard case and hex/allen key in a hard.
How often after PID tuning has the heater cartidge and thermistor needed changing.
How often and frequent should fans be changed, is it worth having spares, when my hotend is consistently an E3d with copper(heat block), titanium(heat break), and a hardend nozzle, as well as the Microswiss hotend.
Might consider the upgrade to the afterburner style extruder/hotend for the DIY printer but this is the afterburner with the voron Bondtech LGX extruder.
Should spare wiring be kept or purchased as needed.
So essentially, I am looking for a massive overhall, of my setup in order to organise and declutter the junk, most importantly should I purchase the spares as of when something breaks down.
You can probably tell, that I've become an addict to this hobby, and am not slowing down any time soon.
My journey started with the Anet A8 which was overwhelming and exciting to see its first moves, i then broke my ABL holder which resulted in me taking the first step to purchase a hot glue gun, to hold it together, and start of my upgrades the first upgrade was the Duet, and have since purchased 2 boards one of them burnt and now more recently have purchased the Fly E3 RFF edition.
What a journey, and will defenitelly be excited for your assistance in this massive overhual ....
