You guys rock. I was about to turn several prints into melted skulls…:- 
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I saw YouTubers using them all the time, I had a little creme brûlée torch and kept melting prints lol, finally bought a proper heat gun (‘pen’) and holly hot magic batman, I use it on every single print now, I love using it to get stringing under control, and it even smooths out matte prints and scratches, and I can sand surfaces and heat gun them to get rid of the white from sanding - proper required tool now.
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One of my favorite tools. Dont let the price fool you. It also automatically shuts off the heat gun portion when docked.
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Just go over them with a butane torch or heat gun. the Stress marks will disappear. And you shouldn’t need glue on a textured plate, if adhesion is not good, then you need to wash it better. Soap, water, a scrubby that HASN’T been used in the kitchen. Guys need to stop complaining about adhesion when they just washed the build plate with the same scrub sponge that they cleaned the bacon pan with.
Depends on which filament you’re using.
No, not really, the topic is about build plate adhesion, not release agents. The one exception to using glue on a textured PEI plate is to release PETG. It has nothing to do with increasing adhesion with PETG, glue in this case reduces adhesion a bit so the print is easier to remove.
Once again, if you’re having to use glue to maintain adhesion, then the plate needs to be cleaned properly. As long as you’ve never used acetone on that plate, a good, proper cleaning is all that’s needed to promote good adhesion. Glue is only to release PETG and to cover up poor cleaning practices.
Exactly my point. I have not printed with every possible filament, But I would not be surprised to encounter another one that needs glue on the textured plate.
Whatever you say. When you take one small part of the post and use it alone to make your argument it’s manipulative, it’s called confirmation bias, look it up.
You’re assertion that there may be another filament out there that needs glue will be your evidence that your were correct, yet you still will have ignored all the cleaning practices, which forced you to use glue to print on a dirty plate. So you will create a self reinforcing argument that’s based on false assumptions and go pat yourself on the back.
Clearly you’re new at this if you are still wondering about types of filaments, so good luck. Go forth and force your unsupported opinions on others.
It’s funny how the main point of my posts was that you need to clean the textured plate properly, yet you’ve made no mention of that. You simply defend the use of glue as though you’re trying to convince yourself that you don’t need to clean it like everyone has said. Do you always have to be right? Or are you just a big fanboy of glue?
I’ve been printing for more than five years on a Robo and a Prusa before I bought my Bambu two years ago. I run the Bambu most days for pleasure and for my manufacturing business. We all know that a clean plate is important.What concerned me was that you said “you shouldn’t need glue on a textured plate”. To the novice who reads these posts for advice, he is likely to take away from that that he never needs to use glue on a textured plate, which is not true. There are common situations (like PETG) where you DO need to use glue on a textured plate, not for adhesion, but for release. This is confusing to the novice who thinks of glue as “glue”.
Once again, the OP was about adhesion not release agents. The concern you specified is pointless compared to the insinuation you made that glue is a common use, and you never referenced good cleaning until just now. The context of your post would lead anyone to believe that glue is required for textured plates to get good adhesion when it’s just not the case. Clearly you’ve had a chance to fine tune your argument and add elements that you had not intended in the beginning. Next time if you want to say those things, say them! Don’t reply “it depends on material” and provide no context. Particularly if the novice is who you’re so concerned about.
Five years of experience doing it poorly is not evidence of expertise.
You do like to argue!
The OP was about white spots on the prints, not adhesion.
How would you know I’ve been “doing it” poorly for five years? You know nothing about me.
But I think we’ve covered the topics of white spots, adhesion, and cleaning adequately now.
I enjoy correcting BS that lazy self promoters post.
I have sometime with pei indeed, the same problem, i use a heat gun a it moslty erase all the whiteish marks, but be careful with the heatgun bud