Anyone else get carried away with 3d printed tool storage?

[ttabbal]

I've had the best luck with smooth PEI. I get a thicker sheet and make sure to use the 3M tape to hold it to the steel sheet. Most of them are available with the tape pre-applied. I also like to hold it down with weight overnight to let the glue on the tape set.

For really sticky filaments, the textured PEI is nice. It lets go a little easier, so plastics that don't stick as well aren't as good a choice. I do like the texture on the parts though.

 

[GeneT45]

My Ender (V2 Neo) must have come with a different sheet - mine *is* metal. Like I said, it worked great, for a while, but then stopped sticking. My Anycubic came with a glass bed and I eventually got a PEI sheet for it. While waiting for the PEI sheet to arrive, I discovered hairspray... I didn't want to use it before either, but now I don't print without it. It's super-insurance that you'll have enough adhesion, but still be able to get your print off the bed without resorting to a cold chisel on a demolition hammer. I'd just about guarantee that once you use it you'll be sold...

I have three printers (Ender3 V2 Neo, Anycubic Kobra Max, and Bambu X1C) with three different bed treatments and I use hairspray on all of them.

GsT

Edit: also easier, faster, and cheaper to apply than glue stick, kapton, or leprechaun boogers.

 

[Ken226]

My Ender (V2 Neo) must have come with a different sheet - mine *is* metal. Like I said, it worked great, for a while, but then stopped sticking. My Anycubic came with a glass bed and I eventually got a PEI sheet for it. While waiting for the PEI sheet to arrive, I discovered hairspray... I didn't want to use it before either, but now I don't print without it. It's super-insurance that you'll have enough adhesion, but still be able to get your print off the bed without resorting to a cold chisel on a demolition hammer. I'd just about guarantee that once you use it you'll be sold...

I have three printers (Ender3 V2 Neo, Anycubic Kobra Max, and Bambu X1C) with three different bed treatments and I use hairspray on all of them.

GsT

Edit: also easier, faster, and cheaper to apply than glue stick, kapton, or leprechaun boogers.

I ruined more than a few build plate liners before I started using hair spray.

In my opinion, hair spray is a must have for printing with PETG and TPU. Especially if your using those Kapton decal type liners, like the back one a few posts back.

My Flashforge uses those, and without hair spray, they end up with the same look as that one. A giant hole in the middle.

 

[great white]

I used to use the creality coated glass plates. Worked great until I really dialed in the z height for ABS. As i let it cool, I started hearing "crik crik" and the glass spalled right off. Seems I had my adhesion dialed in a little too well.

I ended up going to the coated metal sheets that are removable. I flip it over and print on the bare steel for abs and no more spalling issues. I just have to remember to allow the plate to fully cool before trying to lift it of the print bed (burnt fingers).

 

[Hozzie]

On my Bambu P1S I use both the textured and smooth plates from Bambu. I am using their PETG filament and using the factory settings and don't have any issues with adhesion on either one.

 

[wachuko]

You guys are killing me with the comments on the Bambu printer... I do not want to spend that $$ now... but I am having a heck of a time printing these parts with my old printer...

Not my photos... these are the parts/adapters that I am trying to print.. iEXOS-100-2 on-axis PoleMaster adapter plate and saddle.

This is what they should look like...

I just now stopped the printing of the larger of the three... it was turning into a mess...

 

[great white]

You guys are killing me with the comments on the Bambu printer... I do not want to spend that $$ now... but I am having a heck of a time printing these parts with my old printer...

Not my photos... these are the parts/adapters that I am trying to print.. iEXOS-100-2 on-axis PoleMaster adapter plate and saddle.

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This is what they should look like...
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I just now stopped the printing of the larger of the three... it was turning into a mess...

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Kinda looks liek you have flow issues. when was the last time you verified your nozzle flow rates?

 

[wachuko]

Kinda looks liek you have flow issues. when was the last time you verified your nozzle flow rates?

Let’s see… bought it back in 2013-14

 

[great white]

Let’s see… bought it back in 2013-14

yeah, probably not a bad idea to run the rate test to make sure the extruder hardware is actually giving you what your slicer/software is calling for....

 

[pdentrem]

Have you dried the filament? That looks nasty and high in water filament tends to look like that as well.
Pierre