Construction Update 3.0

By Mustafa Alkhulaitit – Project Manager

The heat bed as mentioned in a previous blog post is remaining the same, except for minor upgrades. This blog post is going to cover the upgrades and work done on the heat bed. The first thing was changing the insulation material used in the original design. The insulation was no more than few pieces of cloth put together and taped with Kapton tape. The look was unprofessional and there was heat loss.

The previous design is shown in Fig.1.

 To fix this, a rigid foam insulator is now used instead of the cloth. The insulation foam sheet was cut and cleaned for perfect fitting. Figures 2 and 3 show how insulation sheet and how machinery was used to have the perfect thickness.

The surface, as can be seen in Fig2, will reflect heat minimizing heat loss. Figures 4 and 5 show the final insulation sheet ready for implementation.