You should also make sure the glass is clean.
Pei sheet vs glass.
Compare properties of unfilled pei and 30 glass fiber reinforced pei.
On the same printer gluing on a pei sheet will still leave the surface it had before.
Laminate your sheet of pei using 3m 468mp adhesive transfer tape to a glass mirror print bed keeping in mind that 3m 468mp is a very tacky tape that is prone to clumping.
Adding weight glass sheet to the y axis increases the load on the stepper motor and means it s more likely to perform poorly at higher speeds and or when printing large objects.
Pei sheet 3d printing.
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One reason might be that glass is an easy flat surface.
Better with thin sheet of pei on glass.
Best 3d printer build surface glass vs pei vs buildtak more.
Switching to a glass bed isn t a great idea on a prusa for a number of reasons.
Choosing the best build surface for your 3d printer can be a confusing task at time which took a while myself to figure out.
Use some windex on it if necessary.
I ve run glass the craptastic preforated sheet that shipped with my printer painter s tape kapton tape and pei and vastly prefer the latter out of all of them.
You can actually lightly sand it with 600 grit sand paper to give your pei sheet some more life.
Pei sheets can be pretty uneven thick sheets more so.
How to use it as a 3d print surface.
Glass reinforcement provides even greater rigidity and dimensional stability while maintaining many of the useful characteristics of basic pei.
By peter ferris mar 5 2019.
If you have a china printer with a bed fleas can surf on you can easily go with a glass surface that instantly gives you better results due to being flat.
The glass reinforcement yields a product with an exception strength to weight ratio and increased tensile strength.
Pei is easily cut to size by scoring with a hobby knife.
Everything i ve used just sticks to pei with no glue or hair spray or anything else required.
5 mil is about optimal.
Written by michael dwamena.
Stick to the sheet.
3d printing on glass should be done with moderate heating 60 c.
Heated glass print bed.
The pinda probe won t work correctly.
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