After a dozen of prints I encoutered a issue with the printsurface sticker. While use a Stanley-knife and a little scapel the sticker loosend from the glass surface. Only a part of it.
Is there any reason for why this happend? Overheated? Durability of the sticker?
As a remark. Around the printed object where the sticker loosend was no contour. Dunno know why, but it had a 50% contour.
Can i proceed printing on the glass surface or do I need to buy a new sticker?
Kind regards Fr33z
Once the Buildtak is damaged you’ll need to get a new one. You can’t print on the glass plate without a heated bed.
You will need a tool that that is sharp and that can be pushed underneath the printed object, without cutting into the buildtak sheet. You can’t lay a stanly knife or scalpel plat on the buildtak, so they will both most certainly cut into the buildtak sheet no matter how careful you are.
Really? I thought you could print PLA on glass that was coated in a 50% PVA solution?
Yes I ruined my buildtak on the first print by removing it with a Stanley knife l “Plat”/flat on the buildtak. (Kvond dat vree grappig)
Then I used ordinary painters tape… At first blue but that sucked because it where many pieces to cover it completely. Afterwards I just got the cheapest wide white tape. (just make sure the tape has a small roughness not the stretchy stuff. )Worked also very well but it pretty much ripped to pieces every time when removing objects. Then I tried the d-c-fix® Velours decoration foil, this has SUPERB adhesion only drawback is every object has some pieces of the Velours embedded on the bottom of it. But I printed like 20 objects on the same spot and it still was doing fine. And the embedded fibres get less and less every print. But then I bought a Printinz zebra-plate this is the bomb for printing PLA imho. Its easy to remove, adhesion is less than velours but better than once used painters tape. So at first you need to look for the perfect hight to start with. But after a few days you don’t want anything else to print on.
d-c-fix® Velours is available in most DY stores (I bought it in belgium at a Brico)
Printinz plate you can only get online at [http=Printinz.com]Printinz.com[/url] Be very aware there are import duties (In the end its more than double the price advertised! Item + Shipping + Import duties = 40$ + 28$ + 23€)
In other words, I wouldn’t buy a new buildtak. It’s good to print a first time. But I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone because its to expensive and you always got a chance ruining it.
Kind Regards!
JeAfKe
Hi JeAfke,
I am very interested in this Zebra plate. I have a few questions about this:
Thanks
Yes, but actually I’m going to place it back because the aluminium base plate is actually to crooked to get it to work well…
(I have my nozzles really close to the zebra plate at certain spots it goes from 0.25mm on the front corners till almost 0.1 at the middle front.)
No, this thing is placed in a noise insulated wooden box in our livingroom and if it would smell like burned plastic all evening my GF would most likely kill me. Havent ordered any ABS fillament either so I couldn’t test it.
Kind Regards
JeAfKe
[quote]You will need a tool that that is sharp and that can be pushed underneath the printed object, without cutting into the buildtak sheet.
[/quote] Could Velleman please suggest a suitable knife ?
Do not point it towards any part of your body when applying force to it
I’ve seen the problems here, using a scrapper or the cutter knife blade without holder to lay it flat on the bed. Often my objects are high enough to easily pull them off the BuildTak sheet with some force. And I’m still using the first BuildTak sheet, still working good (a second one I’ve ordered together with the printer as spare).
EDIT: Velleman support was a bit faster 