Building a Sound Dampening Enclosure
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@QuintBrand Also, I have thought about going the MDF route, which would be a solid candidate if all angles were 90°. If I go the integrate route, which I am still leaning to, there are 90° angles, but also 120's which would be an absolute pain to construct properly with the tools I have available.
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@Nxt-1 said in Building a Sound Dampening Enclosure:
@QuintBrand Also, I have thought about going the MDF route, which would be a solid candidate if all angles were 90°. If I go the integrate route, which I am still leaning to, there are 90° angles, but also 120's which would be an absolute pain to construct properly with the tools I have available.
Do you have a circular saw? Normally they have a adjustable plate, allowing you to make bevel cuts. And obviously you can use printed brackets to hold it together.
Personally I'd use MDF, or maybe chipboard. You want volume for sound damping, steel I'd be worried about being too stiff.This is turning into one of those building a boat in the attic stories.
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Radio silence for a while but a lot has happened and more will happen very soon.
About a week ago I had my mind set on going the integrated route using 3 or maybe 2mm steel plates that I would weld. A fear was in the back of my head that this would be a sure path a more resonating surfaces (ie the steel) but my eagerness to weld something and possibly maybe have a chance at improving my welding skills while I am at it, was a strong argument for me
Long story short, to use steel plate cost effectively, you need to use standard dimensions in your designs, or use large plates and cut them optimally to suit your needs. Seeing how some of the back panels I need are sized roughly 140x45cm, and several other long pieces, I would need to go to something like a 3000x1500cm plate to use them effectively. Now may it be that I have no way of moving plates that size, nor do I want to pay for a large transport carrier to drop them off.
So after all, MDF enclosure here I come. I adapted and completed the design and below you can see what I came up with. I went to my local hardware store, got all the pieces I need cut nice and straight out of 18mm MDF and picked the wood up today. Simultaneously I figured out how many sheets of the Akotherm sound absorbing material I needed and, received them today as well. I went with 1 sheet, 50mm thick, D40 (the heavier variant) on all internal surfaces. With the idea that I designed room for a second layer if that proves necessary, as the plates are not exactly cheap.
I plan to assemble the wood structure and line the Akotherm over weekend. But before I do that I do plan to prime the wood and paint the outside. What color would you guys pick? I think blue would be the obvious color, but I think it will become a blue overload then
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As I said, yesterday and today was assembly/painting day. I applied one coat of primer on all surfaces just kind of seal the surfaces and make them dust free. All surfaces that I planned on actually paint in color got a second coat of primer. After that, I put a single coat of color on there. I chose what the manufacturer calls 'concrete' color, yet it does not look anything like concrete but whatever
Tomorrow, once its all dry, I'll see how good the result is with the single top coat. Assuming it's decent I will test fit the covers and see how it works out. I think I am going to wait with installing the sound dampening panels until the aluminium extrusion that the 4th axis rail attached to, arrives. And the 4th axis design I am working on is all finished up.Oh and god I hate painting
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@Nxt-1 said in Building a Sound Dampening Enclosure:
Yet the noise levels are not down to what is acceptable for me.
FYI, Installing the x/y/z steppers on dampers reduced significantly the noise from my printer. Others reported similar success. It prevents the vibrations to propagate to the frame.
https://www.amazon.com/BIQU-Stepper-Vibration-Dampers-Printer/dp/B07GWN6V8
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@zapta said in Building a Sound Dampening Enclosure:
@Nxt-1 said in Building a Sound Dampening Enclosure:
Yet the noise levels are not down to what is acceptable for me.
FYI, Installing the x/y/z steppers on dampers reduced significantly the noise from my printer. Others reported similar success. It prevents the vibrations to propagate to the frame.
https://www.amazon.com/BIQU-Stepper-Vibration-Dampers-Printer/dp/B07GWN6V8
I had not written about it at the moment you posted but I am using proper dampers since a couple weeks now. Check my comment in the original vibration issues thread.
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If it doesn't work you are good to go for I nice loudspeaker NXT!
This must work though! Cheers
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The progress is going slower then I would like, lets hope slow and steady does the trick. I am waiting on an order from Motedis for some extrusions for over a week now. Some other stuff like magnets and water cooling items are still on their way too.
Meanwhile I did glue the one of panels, the door to be specific. Doesn't like very polished, but I can't really be bothered at this point, especially for something that you cannot see when it's in use. On the door panel I 'just' have to cut out a piece of the bottom so there is clearance with electrical outlets on the machine base and cutout some slots where I am going to epoxy in some magnets to keep the door shut.
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Finally an update!
I have been working tirelessly for the past couple of day I can say that the enclosure is complete. Especially from the inside it does not always look the cleanest, but hey, I don't really care hehe. On a less positive note, it does not preform as expected, not at all. Even with the door closed the noise reduction is slightly noticeable but to be honest, negligible sadly. The enclosure will surely still serve as a barrier to keep the heat in and possible cold breezes out, as well as a mounting structure for the 4th axis rails.
Maybe of interest to some, each panel weighs between 15 and 30kg. They are not identical, as one is a door and one has a large water cooling radiator bolted to the back of it.
On the positive side, I have isolated two 'new' noise sources of which I have already resolved one. I'd like to keep this thread on topic so I will start yet another one to talk about it in detail. Come along for the journey: https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/18281/battling-sources-of-vibration-and-noise
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@Phaedrux Is that the Duet4?
