Ideas for fireproof printer enclosure May 03, 2014 09:30AM |
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Wouldn't you need to test this enclosure in some way ? Would you have a printer to spare ?
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Re: Ideas for fireproof printer enclosure May 03, 2014 02:38PM |
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so what kinda level of paranoid are you after any how.?
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Re: Ideas for fireproof printer enclosure August 20, 2014 09:58AM |
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How is a fire going to reach 1100 degrees inside of a sealed chamber? By the time it even approached that temperature any plastic would have already smoldered or ignighted, consuming the oxygen and effectively snuffing out the flames. In the event of a thermal runaway of a build plate or hot end, a short likely would trip also long before melting point of the alumnium.Quote
garyhlucas
Alumininum melts at 1100f. It seldom survives a fire.
Re: Ideas for fireproof printer enclosure October 25, 2014 09:15AM |
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What about plain old glass? It has a high melting point, high visibility, relitivally light, and since you are wanting it to contain the smell you will want to make it as air tight as possible. If a fire did break out inside it the oxygen would soon be all consumed and extinguish itself.
On the con side it is glass so it's fairly fragile, No more indoor baseball games.
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Mike
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I don't think ordinary plasterboard is a suitable material. It is just made from gypsum on a canvas backing.
Re: Ideas for fireproof printer enclosure January 09, 2015 07:52PM |
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Re: Ideas for fireproof printer enclosure January 15, 2015 10:04PM |
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If you put the sand into a styrofoam bucket and leave it on top of the printer/enclosure, it will dump itself onto the fire in he presence of flames hot enough to melt the styrofoam. We used to have styrofoam suspended ceiling tiles at work with the fire sprinklers above them, and it was allowed by fire code because the tiles would melt and drop out in the event of a fire before it got hot enough to trigger the sprinklers. I don't know how they overlooked the noxious fumes from burning styrofoam, and am wondering in retrospect if it wasn't a special foam?????
Re: Ideas for fireproof printer enclosure January 18, 2015 06:05PM |
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If you put the sand into a styrofoam bucket and leave it on top of the printer/enclosure, it will dump itself onto the fire in he presence of flames hot enough to melt the styrofoam. We used to have styrofoam suspended ceiling tiles at work with the fire sprinklers above them, and it was allowed by fire code because the tiles would melt and drop out in the event of a fire before it got hot enough to trigger the sprinklers. I don't know how they overlooked the noxious fumes from burning styrofoam, and am wondering in retrospect if it wasn't a special foam?????
Doesn't really matter at that point. A fire big enough to melt the tiles (or set off the sprinkler head) would have killed you by smoke inhalation already. You should be beatin' feet LONG before then!
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