Cheap K8200 housing (Repetier server/stand-alone/IKEA)

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Cheap:
This housing is created with only €41. By using IKEA items. And items I already had.

Housing itself:
The housing is made of 3 IKEA LACK-tables.
The only table that is build like the manual says is the top table.
The second table is build upside-down by drilling the wholes for the legs/poles completely through the table top.
Also these legs/poles are cut in half length. 4 of these poles I used here, 2 others I used for the spool holder on top of the 3D-printer.
In the bottom table top I also drilled the holes through-all to fix the table upside-down.
Underneath I placed 4 IKEA RILL wheels.

Repetier-Server:
Underneath the K8200 is an old PC running windows 7 and repetier server. The dvd-drive was broken so i fixed this with a printed name tag.
I really wanted a stand-alone printer, because I didn’t want the printer to be in my living room everyday.
Make sure you make the right Fire-wall settings, otherwise the repetier-server won’t work. (Firewall accept repetier-server on your PC)

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3x IKEA LACK[/b] €5,99 x 3 = [color=#FF0000]€17,97[/color]
1x IKEA RGB-LED-strip (I had this already)
3x HUBO 1000 x 500 x 0,8mm PVC €5,40 x 3 = [color=#FF0000]€16,20[/color]
1x IKEA RILL wheel-set[/b] 4 wheels for €6,99 = [color=#FF0000]€6,99[/color]
1x OLD flat PC (I had this already)

[color=#FF0000]TOTAL: 41,16[/color]

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Door:
As it is hard to see, just believe me: the printer has only a left, right and backside window.
The front side is open. I’m still looking for a nice door to fit in it.

Spool holder:
At this moment (see picture) i’m printing a spool holder.
I’m building this with the remaining IKEA-lack legs/poles.

Camera surveilance:
I recently installed a camera on the printer server. Results:

Webcam view:

Congratulations! Really nice work!
But i hope you put a smoke dectector in it :wink:
Not that all that nice IKEA stuff goes up in smoke through a heater failure …

Nice box. When you are using ABS a suction system would be fine.

(Errors:
My only problem at this time is that the printer stops printing after a few hours (long prints or long use).)

I think this kind of stop is related to spikes caused by switching on or off some device/TL in your house. Sometimes rearangement of cables can be helpfull.

Regarding the print stopping i would say that it sounds like a spike, i left a 15 hour print on overnight, checked first thing at 7am(14 hours through the print), had shower, turned lights on ect, and at 7.10am it had stopped… Since then I have used a dedicated flat panel PC, with a really short USB cable and the problems seemed to have gone away… something is being thrown off with interference…

great job on the encosure!!! :slight_smile:

Regarding the print stopping i would say that it sounds like a spike, i left a 15 hour print on overnight, checked first thing at 7am(14 hours through the print), had shower, turned lights on ect, and at 7.10am it had stopped… Since then I have used a dedicated flat panel PC, with a really short USB cable and the problems seemed to have gone away… something is being thrown off with interference…

great job on the encosure!!! :slight_smile:

What about a kitchen front door with glass?
I think the Swedish guys might have smething matching in stock …

BTW. What stuff did you use for the sides and back?

The sides are made of PE (Polyethylene). With a thickness of 0,8 mm it’s easy to cut with a cutter.

Greetz

Very nice job, congrats!

Hi guys, i’m building the same setup for one of my k8200’s,
i think i’ll put in the k8200 with drill/cnc mod, and complete the installation with foam or sound absorbption panels.
I’ll add some nice neopixel strip and octoprint support with a raspberry,
a little fujitsu-siemens mini-pc acting as a repetier server/standalone…and a UPS (highly raccomended!)

In this photo,

i have choco kit installed, and original k82000 lcd, but i’ll get them off.

I noticed i’ll have maybe to put electronics out of the enclosure,
because of the Z motor stealing some space…
how did you get the entire machine on the table space?

Thank you,

Mario