Have you removed the exhaust fan altogether?

[eflyguy]

Here’s one thread where it’s covered:

First Modification

Once your glowforge is out of warranty, here is one of the few improvements you can make to your machine that doesn’t require an expenditure. Enter a jigsaw with a metal cutting blade. [IMG_20180901_153215] I’m sure most of you will recognize this as the exhaust fan guard. For liability reasons, this is required of manufacturing in this country to sell to the public, an unguarded fan is bad JuJu for a manufacturer because there is someone out there who is bound to be absent-minded enough to h…