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Getting prints to stick to print bed

Discussion in 'Troubleshooting' started by JDM_, Jun 26, 2013.

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  1. tesseract

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    Another option is is to get a regular pane of glass and use hairspray (auqanet seems to be the favorite) Search for hairspray in this forum and you will see several examples of success. Basically you get a 10x10 sheet of regular glass tape it downto the heat bed. DO NOT USE HEAT AT ALL ON THE BED. Spray a bit of hairspray onto the glass then start you print by the time the hot end gets to the right temperature the hirspray will have dried and you will find your prints will stay down. If they still do not then you have another issue which is probably that the starting height of the print bed is to high.

    The first layer needs to be pushed down on to the bed JUST SLIGHTLY you should end up seeing a slightly compressed line of filament being laid down if you see a simply flat line it is too low. You want to definitely see filament in a line.

    Hope this helps and continued luck printing
     
  2. Seshan

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    I've been printing ABS on blue tape on glass with ABS juice on the tape, the prints stick amazingly well, and and are pretty easy to come off, sometimes the tape rips, but that's it. I didn't have any luck with ABS juice just on glass.
     
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