Further progress with Lack enclosure
The top table is fitted.
Continued work on the Lack enclosure today. I decided to discard that idea of using wood spacers instead of printing risers because the transition from 50 mm leg to 42 mm riser to 50 mm coupler was just too weird. It also would have left large gaps all around the enclosure, compromising its ability to control temperature and noise. I printed 80 mm risers, it took nearly 12 hours all up. I printed them one by one in case of print failure.
Attaching the couplers and risers was straightforward, but I did have to grind a new profile on my only long screwdriver to be able to tighten the screws at the bottom of those risers.
With the second Lack table fitted I was able to take measurements for the side panels (442 mm wide × 498 mm tall). I will attach magnetic catches to the top Lack’s legs because those are made of decent MDF sheet, whereas the top and bottom of the tabletops are made of something thinner. Those catches will be spaced so that once the panels are mounted onto them, the outer surface of the panels will be flush with the legs. Having the sheets only attached to the top Lack also means that I can remove the whole thing in one piece if I want to.
I was considering having handles on all of the panels, but the protrusion of the handles would increase the footprint of the enclosure. I think I will have handles on the front panel only, and just push the side/rear panels out from inside the enclosure. Or I can cut slots into each panel and use a removable handle (shaped like a T, you insert it and then turn it 90° to retain it in the slot).
Finally, I printed and installed a filament pipe into the top Lack so that I could store my filament spool in a dry box on top of the enclosure, like I always have.
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