My Glowforge has picked up a nasty smoking habit

[AhnoldZ]

As mpipes pointed out, you want to check the exhaust fan and vent for built-up gunk. Multiple people have reported smoke issues when that gets slowly blocked up.

Cleaning Addendum

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. It took me a while to troubleshoot it, I’m a little slow on the uptake sometimes because I’m so naive. I moved the machine under an exhaust hood with a total of three feet of the supplied flexible duct to eliminate the long run of 4" pipe. I still could feel air being forced out of e…