Fan vibration

[Jules]

Mine developed that when the exhaust fan got gunked up. (They run out of balance and it is extremely loud, but otherwise shouldn’t affect performance.).

This is what I did to clean it. Standard disclaimer applies.

Caution: Dirty Pictures....or...How I Cleaned the Exhaust Fan

Update: 12/14/2018: Happily, the Glowforge crew has released an “easier to implement” cleaning regimen for the exhaust fan now…instructions for how to do it involve purchase of a special non-flammable degreasing spray cleanser and use of a special cleaning mode of the software…instructions here: Written up below is the old way that I was doing it…it’s a fairly labor intensive alternative that has worked very well if you are willing to keep up with it as you go along and not let it get …