So I am doing a group of 30 parts in various colors in print by object. The first group finished, so I took one off the bed to check the quality and it ended up popping off and going into the gap in the heated bed bracket in the right side of the printer. How can I get it out?
When that happened to me, the only remedy was to secure all the loose pieces like the glass door and top and flip the printer. Eventually, it will come out but you’ll have to experiment and shake it.
Truth be told, those are pretty bad photos so I am forced to guess what you really are pointing at. There’s almost no contrast and no annotation in the images. So let me provide this graphic just to be sure we are on the same page.
This is the cavity you were referring to(right side show for better viewing) Is this correct?
On my Printer I have dust covers after this happened to me a second time.
Thanks for the dust covers. I will try flipping it, it’s such a simple solution but sounds like it may work. I tried to remove it with canned air which may have pushed it further in.
Yeah, been there, done that too. 
I found that I had to flip the printer and look carefully with a flash light to wait for the part to appear. I could never get it to just “pop out”. Once it was in view, tiny tweezers allowed me to grab it.
The whole print bed is a badly worked out design. It just invites dust and debris. In fact the whole printer is just a dust Charlie-Foxtrot in my opinion.
BTW: Here is my collection of P1/X1 dust covers from various makers.
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