Showing posts with label heated bed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heated bed. Show all posts
Friday, 10 June 2011

ABS on FR4

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I have been printing both ABS and PLA on PET tape for more than a year now. It works well and lasts for many months, but eventually the sil...
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Monday, 10 January 2011

ABS on PETG

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I have been using PET tape on my heated bed for a long time now. It works very well as long as I clean it with acetone about every 100 hour...
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Monday, 9 August 2010

Rejuvenated Bed

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I put new PET tape on my heated bed at the beginning of July. Since then I have printed 15 Mendels on it, but on the last few I was getting ...
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Saturday, 3 July 2010

ABS on PC

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My last heated bed ran for a long time but it finally went pop on Mendel print number 15. The TO220 resistors developed a short to earth ab...
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Friday, 14 May 2010

PLA on glass

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A while ago Jordan Miller emailed me to say that PLA can be printed on hot glass. He had tried ABS but it did not stick at 90°C, which was t...
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Friday, 30 April 2010

Flash bang bed

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As my MK3 heated bed on HydraRaptor has been working well I decided to scale it up for Mendel. Buying aluminium that is flat seemed to be a...
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Saturday, 24 April 2010

ABS on PET tape

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I find ABS sticks to Kapton very well to start with, but as it ages, it seems to stick less well. Corners start to lift and eventually build...
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Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Dibond bed

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I had been making Mendel parts with my Mendel, using PLA on blue masking tape, as it didn't have a heated bed . When I made a frame vert...
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Friday, 2 April 2010

CU + PLA

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Vik Olliver asked for a volunteer with a heated bed to see if we can extrude onto copper clad board. I didn't think it would stick, but ...
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Thursday, 25 March 2010

Heated bed MK3

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My first heated bed worked OK but it was slow to warm up and hard to remove objects. The second one was only ever intended for experimenting...
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Thursday, 11 February 2010

Suck it and see

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The magnetic steel and polyimide tape bed works very well for manual operation but I am pursuing the vacuum bed idea for fully automated pr...
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