Go put a tape measure on the bench you were planning to use. Most desks and workbenches run 24 to 30 inches deep. The Kobra 3 Max enclosure is 39 inches deep. This is the part of the setup nobody checks until the box is already in the room.
Width gets all the attention; depth is what kills the install. Hang the back nine inches of an enclosure off the rear edge of a shallow bench and you haven't made it untidy — you've made it a tipping risk, under a machine that throws a 420 mm bed and the part on it front-to-back all print long.
So this isn't a choice between our table and a cheaper table. For this machine, it's a choice between this table and no table that actually fits.
The top extends exactly half an inch past the enclosure on every side. Enough overhang to level, latch, and grip. Not so much that you've bought a piece of furniture you have to find room for.
The frame is deliberately low: a 32-inch enclosure on a 26-inch table puts the top of the machine at 58 inches — everything reachable, everything visible.
See the full enclosure table fitment guide for every machine we build for.
Built on 40-series black aluminum extrusion with cast corner brackets and M8 hardware — the same structural system used for CNC machine frames and industrial workstations. The top is 3/4″ melamine: flat, sealed, wipes clean, and won't telegraph a heat cycle the way a raw wood top will.
A Kobra 3 Max is a big bed-slinger before you add the enclosure, a spool bank, and a full-plate part. This frame is specified for a 175 lb working load with margin for motion — because the number that matters isn't what the table holds sitting still, it's what it holds while a bed-slinger throws mass around on top of it.
Four leveling feet handle a floor that isn't as flat as you think it is. A machine that rocks a millimeter is a machine that ghosts.
An enclosure contains fumes and ultrafine particles. It does not make them disappear. If you run ABS, ASA, or nylon, where the exhaust goes and whether the hose reaches a window or a filter without a kink are decisions that get made at the bench, not in the slicer. This frame stays out of the way of both: an open structure that never pinches a hose, T-slot channels on every rail for cable and duct management, and a footprint that lets the enclosure — not the table — decide how much room the 4-inch run gets behind it.
Add a fully enclosed mid-shelf with clear acrylic panels and a cam lock. Filament, dryers, nozzles, tools, and spares stay visible, dust-free, and secured.
If you run this machine in a classroom, a shared lab, a makerspace, or any shop where more than one person walks past it, you already know why that's on the list. Consumables walk. This is the version of the answer that doesn't involve a plastic bin and hope.
Your Kobra 3 Max will not be your last machine. Two years from now there's a faster one with a different footprint, and the bench you bought for this one is either the right size by luck or it's scrap. Extrusion doesn't work that way. Every surface of this frame is a mounting rail. Re-drop the T-nuts, move a rail, add a shelf, hang a spool holder, bolt on a monitor arm, restretch it for the next machine. It reconfigures because it was designed to be reconfigured.
You're not buying a table for a printer. You're buying the bench that survives the next three.
Every extrusion arrives cut to final length, deburred, and labeled, with the leg bores already tapped for the feet. The top and shelf come CNC-cut with the mounting holes counterbored. Brackets, T-nuts, and hardware are counted and bagged by step. Flat-pack keeps the freight sane and keeps the price honest — you're paying for aluminum and precision, not for air in a box.
Assembly is straightforward and takes one person about an hour. No welding, no drilling, no cutting. If you can build the enclosure, you can build this.
Cut, kitted, and shipped by the same shop that makes your enclosure. Same tolerances, same people, same phone number when you have a question. Backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee and a 1-year warranty against manufacturer defects.
Not running a Kobra 3 Max? We build these for any enclosure in our catalog, and for machines that aren't. Send us your model and we'll confirm the exact footprint, height, and load rating before you order.
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