After lot of trial and error I would like to share my experience for newcomers.
When I got the printer I had serious issues of the prints not sticking to bed.
I bought a glass plate and that helped a lot when it comes to adjusting the bed but not adhesion.
Now I got perfekt results every time.
I use E3d V6 hot end.
This is what I did: PLA
I adjusted the bed to 0.15 micrometer from the nossle.
For PLA i set the the bed temp to 60 degrees and the hot end to 230 degrees.
I use PVA mixed with water. Around 70% water and 30% PVA Glue.
Brush it on and then heat the bed. When its dry you can print.
It have never failed this way. You don’t have to clean the bed everytime I only clean it when I switch to ABS printing.
I don’t use brim and the fan is set to auto.
When the bed is cool it pops of easy.
ABS
For ABS its a little bit more tricky.
I use a little Acetone and a puck of ABS. I move the puck in the acetone until it leaves some residues.
As described here: ultimaker.com/en/community/view … -the-glass
I set the temp to 100 degrees on the bed (I have the 24v PSU upgraded) and 260 degrees on the hot end.
I use brim and no fan.
You have to do this every time you print with ABS
Thank you for that quick write up. Excellent info and great for beginners.
From my personal experience, bed adhesion (or lack there of lol) is the most frustrating and important factor when you are first starting out. It can be very disheartening not being able to get anything to stick when you first fire up the printer.
There are many different solutions, and everyone has their own favorites methods. But the above advise will be invaluable to beginners.
Hy,
for ABS, hair spray on glass is good, I use the cheapest brand of Strong Hair Spray +/- 1euro the 400ml bottle.
for PLA, a use a clean glass and add little hair spray, but first of all, I lower manualy the distance between the noozle and the glass for the first layer (arround 0.10mm with 0.4mm noozle) and all goes ok after that. The PLA stick well for the most important layer and after, let the printer go on
We have used the AquaNet Extra Super Hold (cheap) hairspray and found that applying it before printing is a huge benefit.
Also, you can wipe the print bed with acetone to get everything off (grease, old parts bits, etc). Adding a few old p[art scraps into the bottle of acetone leaves a thin film of plastic on the print bed that can also help with adhesion.
Moving the print temperature up from 190 to 210 also helped us.
