Glass Build Plate use on a P1S

[Wsquared58]

I’m curious if anyone is using glass or has tried glass as their build plate on a Bambu Lab printer. I had maintenance over to my apartment yesterday to work on my AC and one of the maintenance guys made an offhand comment about “I see you do some 3d printing” which to someone who doesn’t do 3d printing would not likely know what that boxy thing is stuck in a corner of my apartment even is. He then popped out with “I use a glass plate on mine”. I was sort of dumbfounded and did not ask him what type/brand printer he owned. (but I’m going to)

When I was actively warring with my Ender 3 I had bought a glass build plate in a vain hope it might work. They were all the rage for a while back then. Have not heard a peep about glass build plates since I bought my P1. The glass build plate is out in my garage. Whenever I see it I wonder at how it would work on a BL printer, but since my metal plates work fine there is no reason to try and see what it does.

[Thud-oops]

Short previous discussion, seems like I remember others.

Glass bed setup

Hi I am going to print some nylon (PA6), and want to try a glass bed for this, as I read it is a good option for Nylon, using glue stick. Normal window glass that I cut myself. Can I just replace the PEI sheet in my H2D with a glass plate, re-level, and start printing? Or do I need to do something special to make it work? I will of course fix the glass plate to the heatbed and compensate for temperature.

Can’t offer any personal experience.

Edit, here down in the discussion @Olias talks about using kapton tape

Is there a glass-smooth, shiny, build plate for the X1C (or P1S)?

It’s possible. I’ve used float-glass build plates with my old Prusa Mendel clone, and am competent at glass cutting. The nozzle wiping area would be tricky to manage. I used to do stained glass work, so might be able to cut glass in a way to provide a wiping area. Not at all sure how well that will work. It would be interesting as an experiment though.

[CarbonForge]

Glass build plates belong in the same category as using string trimmer line as filament.

It’s a product of a different era, when specialized alternatives didn’t exist. We have so many better alternatives now.

[Wsquared58]

The Ender 3 (and its clones) era. That era when people were fighting their printers as much as they were printing with them. Clipper & Marlin

Gone the way of the dinosaur

[gomezgames2b]

@Wsquared58

Gone the way of the dinosaur

Yep, float glass on my flash forge made the whole thing workable, that and Aquanet hair spray.

One of the tricks to getting the thing to work was managing where to put the binder clips, and however good I got at that, none of it was as good as the first time I used a PEI plate.

3D printers used to be for niche hobbyists only, now they are on the bitter edge of being a consumer product found in every home.

I did like my first FlashForge printer and the glass I had cut at Michaels, but I don’t miss it.