I was worried about the glue before I bought the printer. Now that I’ve had it for a week, it’s a total non-issue. I bought a tube of their liquid glue and it’s super easy and clean. I don’t use the cool plate, I use the high temperature plate.
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For information I used the method of the other topic, for PLA SILK no problem, we can print with the plate at 55°C, as long as we let the plate cool down before removing the print, we don’t need to glue, for the PLA SILK I presice, it is necessary to do tests I presume.
I ordered the Wham Bam PEI sheet. What Bambu plate do people stick it to? Seems like the Cool plate is the least useful.
I’ve got the textured plate and have just been trying to print some ailerons for an RC plane using bambu lab PLA basic…
2 attempts and 2 failures because the print fell over with both attempts.
I’m using a BambuLab A1 printer.
Are you using a brim?..
Why are you using the textured plate? You’ll probably get better adherence with the cool plate. Hard to know without seeing your shape, but you probably need a brim.
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Sorry. I should have mentioned that I’m new to 3D printing and I was advised to use the textured plate by another user so I’m not familiar with much of the terminology.
I don’t even know what a brim is or how to add one. lol.
You sure about that?
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Sounds you you disagree. In my experience the rough surface provides fewer points of contact and prints come free more easily. This would be especially true for a narrow print. The smooth plate has more contact for more adhesion. But I will admit that I rarely use the Bambu smooth plate anymore and have gone to the WhamBam PEX smooth plate.
OK.
Ok…
Well, it’s recommended to actually use a textured plate for smaller items. Textured give MORE surface area than a smooth plate and gives the filament more to purchase onto. Works like when you scuff a surface before applying glue even a 3M adheiesve.
I don’t want to be a jerk but you have that backwards. I too have a PEX that is a constant headache. Maybe you didn’t know this, maybe you did, but you are supposed to scuff the PEX from WhamBam when you first get it, and to maintain it.
No offense my dude, and I mean that affectionately, you’ve got it backwards.
No offense taken. I’m only speaking from personal experience. A quick look at Google returns this:
I thought the texturing would make PLA adhesion even stronger but it turns out it’s having the opposite effect. Before the upgrade I had no issues with corners lifting due to warpage but now with the textured sheets I have yet to print anything where the corners do not lift. PLA adhesion on these textured sheets is VERY weak.
I love my PEX plate.
Well, you do you.
Be sure to take care of that PEX. Steel wool will be your friend. You scuff it so it’ll have more surface area, like a textured…well nevermind.
I only use my PEX when bored.
Funny how people have such different experiences. I wore out my first PEX by printing ASA and being impatient. These days I’m likely to print PLA all day long on the PEX and the amount of adhesion is perfect. If I let it set until it’s cool the parts slide right off. While warm I have to pop them off, but they come off clean, always adhere, and don’t damage the PEX. I never use steel wool (even though you’re supposed to). Just spray with alcohol before each print.
To my mind, creating a little “tooth” to the surface with steel wool is different than the coarse surface of the textured plates. I only use textured when I want the part to have a texture.
OK. Thanks for that.
I’ll check out
While we’re doing jargon/terminology, what’s the “cool plate”?
Same as the Bambu flat/smooth plate?
Or is it cool like, The Fonz? Because it’s smooth and everybody likes it…
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Just to say that, I mainly print PETG, and use the textured plate without any glue.
I rarely have problems, and when I do it’s usually my fault as I didn’t clean it properly.
The only time I do use glue is if I’m using the Engineering Plate, and I only use the liquid glue then.
Question:
When is it recommended to use the glue stick and not the liquid glue? I’ve never used the glue stick.
When
The cool plate has been discontinued for a while now. Originally it was the plate that shipped with the X1, with 1 side being the “engineering” plate which was a coating good for higher temp printing for filament like PC and ABS. The other side has a sticker surface called the “cool” plate, and was good for filaments that could be printed at much lower bed temps like PLA. The cool plate highly suggested glue stick to work well as an adhesion promoter and release agent which for many of us is a chore. It also had lots of reports of being easy to tear, although I personally never had an issue with it.
I think in the early days Bambu was very concerned about the potential for an enclosed printer chamber to get hot enough where heat creap would cause PLA to soften in the extruder and clog - and while certainly possible, I have been printing for going on 2 years now using high temp plates and PLA with the door closed and never a clog due to this.
Most users moved on quickly to other print surfaces like PEI (smooth or textured), PEX (Wham Bam), G10 (Lightyear), etc. and Bambu has followed suite with their offerings.
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X1C now comes with a double sided textured PEI plate and I’ve printed PLA, PETG, ABS and TPU on it all without issues and no glue.
From the Bambu Wiki;
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