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I eventually built a coreXY printer with a chamber (had to build my own since the patent wasn't off for heated chambers yet, but then I'd built half a dozen printers already so no big deal) and I got pretty good prints with that, but I'd have to replace the hotend fan fairly often as it would get cooked and usually every time that would happen I'd have to do a coldpull.
I would use bluetape and gluestick to keep it down. When PETG came out, I just mothballed all that because it gave me everything I needed in ABS except maybe the rigidity, but I'd just design to compensate.