PLA impressions. ABS, TPU and PETG will be later in the week.
The fine texture is not smooth but definitely has much smaller texture than the BL PEI.
So BIQU talks about room temperature printing. Well, maybe with the Frostbite which is supposed to have more adhesion, but not the Glacier (Still waiting on my Frostbite plate).
To test the adhesion I used a 25mm cube. My printer room is running cool thanks to the snowstorm and cold here in Colorado.
To start, I cleaned the plate with soap and water before printing to remove any manufacturing residue.
Filament is VoxelPLA using their recommendation to select PLA Tough for the filament setting. Filament was dried prior to testing.
I did the first print at 30 C on a P1S. Room temperature is 20C. Used the 0.2mm Standard Process setting. All glass closed. No brims or skirts in these tests.
At about a 3mm height, the object broke loose. Now to be fair, the site advertising may say room temperature for any Cryogrip, but I saw where they recommend 35 as the minimum temp for PLA on the Glacier.
Did a reprint and set the Plate Type setting to cool plate, which puts it at 35 C. Printed with no issues. Then printed a taller object with a circular 25 mm base that flares and branches at the top with no supports. It winds up being about 50mm tall. Printed flawlessly.
One difference between this plate and the PEI plates is, it still has some stickiness once it cools down to room temperature. On my PEI plates the objects let go , but you have to pull or pop the object off this plate.
Now to try a larger surface area. I’ve had the VokelPLA warp on long objects. lets see what happens. Will post pictures later (including one of out total snowfall buildup for fun.
My CryoGrop Glacier plates (bought on BIQU’s BOGO deal) just arrived today… As I do with any build plate, my first step after unpackaging was a thorough washing with Dawn dish soap and hot water… Then off to run some prints. Now, I routinely print PETG, so following their recommendation for PETG on the Glacier plate, I ran it at 70C. I must say, I’m totally NOT impressed. My stock Bambu Textured PEI sheet sticks SIGNIFICANTLY better to PETG at the same 70C temperature… My carbon fiber and diamond effects build plates even stick better. I honestly don’t see any reason to use the Glacier plate other than it does leave a slightly less textured surface on my prints, but otherwise, it really doesn’t stick worth a damn, and in fact it took me 3 times before I even got one single successful print.
So with the Bambu TPU for AMS, I had no problems.
Chose the Smooth PEI Plate / High Temp plate. The filament profile sets the temperature to 35C for the bed.
No glue applied as BIQU says you don’t need it. Excellent adhesion during printing. Was only a little sticky after the plate cooled down. Only toll small to moderate force to remove the test print . (Subjective, hence the range).
I bought a Cryogrip Glacier Plate and it works amazing. I have a Carbon X1 and the only modification I did to get it to work flawlessly is set your plate type to Bambu Cool Plate SuperTack and hit print. I am actually using my printer much more now that I am not having plate issues. Another item of note is, I barely clean the plate in between prints (not recommending this just stating a fact) I merely pull the old filament off the plate and start another print with no issues yet. Highly recommend this plate as long as you use the SuperTack setting in conjunction with it.
