I used to work in HVAC, and used These all the time, ( Backdraft Shutter Damper Connector Duct) and they are wonderful, but I recently discovered that the Glowforge’s smoke, has a Sticky quality to it, and GLUES IT CLOSED… so you need to CLEAN THEM once a month, or use some other method to keep humidity / water out of your GF.
they are a lot easier to deal with since its ‘automatic’ but you also gotta keep em clean.
Jonathan
To save people the click through, this is what he means:
As for solutions, I’ve used a louvered dryer vent for four years and it’s as good as new. Something like this:
and the only caveat to those is make sure it’s not one with a screen inside of it. i wasn’t thinking when i installed the one i bought that had a screen at first and it clogged up in a week or two. just pulled it out and now it works fine.
Never have I ever . . .
thought smoke would be ‘sticky’ but in retrospect plywood has a lot of resin in it, and other bonding agents, when they are cut / burned / etc… that resin would vaporize.
makes sense.
Jonathan
acrylic too.
MDF is the worst here, I think. Hence why it just straight up houses filters.
I’ve used the same vent since I setup my GF. Never had a problem with it.
All woods have resin. Some more so than others.
I have been using this for a long time now and never have any issues or have to deal with disconnecting when now in use (although I often do disconnect because it’s good practice). Those have just great for if I forget to disconnect
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