@3dprinting It took the entire day, like 12 hours, just to model this power supply cover. It doesn't look that hard, but it took a long time to collapse the infinite possibilities down to this one. It's on the printer now; I'll see if it fits in an hour.

@3dprinting I plan to put the printer's power supply outside the enclosure attached to one table leg. The bottom of the power supply will fit into a cradle, and a cap will slide down over the top of the PS to keep it stable. To remove, I'll just slide the top up and lift the PS out.

@3dprinting I am still working on the printer enclosure when I'm not traveling. Today I made a test piece that slides along an IKEA LACK leg. I put steel dowel pins on two sides for a tight but low-friction fit. It works better than expected.

Oh, that will work. Now we can apply a test texture (or I could have used a decal, I know) to the outside to get a sense of how it might look to install art on a standard night stand. #unreal #IKEA #IkeaHacks

@3dprinting ??? This was supposed to be a video. It looks like I just uploaded a still.

@3dprinting I've solved the problem of mounting LEDs to the underside of the LACK table in my printer enclosure. I'm very happy with the result.

@3dprinting Now that we know where the solid parts are inside the table, we see that most of the screws in Prusa's enclosure design are screwed into air. Hmmm...

(Source: https://blog.prusa3d.com/mmu2s-printer-enclosure_30215/ )

@3dprinting Calling it wood was far too generous. As I expected, there's a block of sawdust-glue porridge in the corner just slightly bigger than the leg. It's hard to measure in there, but it looks like it extends about 60mm from each table edge. When I drill the hole for the cable, I can get a better measurement.

@3dprinting I suspect most of you, like me, get to see the insides of IKEA furniture far too rarely. So here's a LACK table undergoing surgery.

Now I'm trying to excavate out to the corner to find out how much wood is there for the legs. I want to run a cable in next to the leg and hide it inside...

As promised, there's just a little #gridfinity storage under the lid.

It's about time to stop pushing pixels and start melting filament. I think this is at least a week of print time and about three Kg of PETG, if I get everything right on the first try. Which I won't.

@3dprinting #3DPrinting #BlackLackStackHack #IkeaHacks