I have been preparing for a local Maker Faire next weekend, so I have been cutting a lot recently. Our the past few days i have really noticed a lot more order in the room when I was cutting. I thought it might have been coming from a small hole in the hose until today. I had been cutting several …

There was a post about the rear fan getting all clogged up from residue and smoke. Led to smoke coming out the gaps in the GF. I’ll look it up.

Thanks, I must have missed that post.

And here it is: [image] Cleaning Addendum Community Support I’m posting this here since I’m probably the first to experience it, and it’s nice to know . Recall my post about smoke coming through the edges of the front door of the glowforge? Well there was a reason for it…

Wow, they really don’t make it easy to clean up the exhaust vent. That whole unit should be removable to make it possible to clear out all the build up. I would also suggest they add cleaning it out regularly to the Cleaning, Service and Moving section of the support page. It would be a lot eaiser …

Yep, took me a while to figure it out. Liability probably requires the grill to prevent being able to touch an open fan. (Odd, since there will be a duct attached). What surprised me is it’s like 1/4" aluminum. The fan would be even more efficient without having a significant percentage of the area…

Update: I would guess that about 90% of my exhaust port was clogged. After cleaning it out as best as i could and giving the rest of the unit a good cleaning I am back up and running with almost no odor and no smoke. I even did the flame test around the gaps and there appears to be no air coming ou…

Out in left field here…how exactly can we access the exhaust port, please? Detach the vent hose…and get to it from there? I just did my first all-lenses clean on Glowria a couple days ago…(she didn’t need much cleaning, but I’m not a power user like some of you are)…it would be good for me to add do…

Yes, remove the flex duct and clean it from the rear. I had the best luck using a stiff piece of wire with a short 90° bend at the tip, poking around and sucking it out with a shopvac. It’s easy to do. Most of it was an accumulation of smoke particulate, but also small bits of paper that the airflo…

Anybody remember pipe cleaners? I wonder if those wouldn’t do a prime job on the cleaning… :thinking:

[image] PrintToLaser: If it’s easy to get to, Thanks for that tip. It won’t be that easy to get to, but I’ll figure out a way.

Houston we have smoke

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AhnoldZ November 12, 2017, 4:27am 4

And here it is: